



PRESli.N'TliU BY 



BETAS 

OF 

ACHIEVEMENT 



Being Brief Biographical Records of 

Members of the Beta Theta Pi 

Who Have Achieved Distinction in 

Various Fields of Endeavor 



By 
WM. RAIMOND BAIRD, M. E., LL. B. 

Author of "American College Fraternities," "The 

Hand-Book of Beta Theta Pi," Editor of 

"The Beta Theta Pi," etc. 



Authorized by the Convention 
OF 1913 



NEW YORK: 

The Beta Publishing Co. 

363 West 20th Street 

1914 






■r.-: •; 13(4 



PREFACE 

Some five years ago the editor had occasion to examine the then 
newly issued volume of "Who's Who in America," and in doing so 
was struck with the number of names of members of the fraternity 
which occurred therein. In 1912, being called upon to review a 
later edition of the same book, he made a list of the members of the 
fraternity whose biographies were in that volume and, without at- 
tempting seriously to compare each name, was surprised to find 
that more than four hundred of the names in the book were those of 
Betas. The striking fact, however, was that in many instances the 
catalog of the fraternity frequently gave only the name and occupa- 
tion of the person referred to, while a much fuller account of his 
career appeared in such book. 

The membership of the fraternity has increased so rapidly that 
it has been necessary to restrict the information concerning each 
member listed in our catalog to the lowest terms. The result is that 
there is nowhere to be found outside of compilations like "Wlio's Who 
in America," or "Men of Science in America," an adequate presenta- 
tion, even in briefest form, of the careers of many of our members. 
Consequently, it occurred to the editor that it would be a good idea 
at the present time, in order that the fraternity might become aware 
of the achievements of its members, to compile a book somewhat on 
the lines of "Who's Who in America" (omitting the vital statistics) 
and restricting it to those listed on our rolls, but including deceased 
members. Therefore, the catalog of the fraternity was examined 
with a view to determining who might properly be included in such 
a list, although naturally, a somewhat wider range of selection was 
permissable than tliat which had been employed in the older publi- 
cation. 

There were listed all executive officers of the United States 



4 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Government and of the different state governments (excepting per- 
sons occupying merely clerical or subordinate positions), all United 
States senators, congressmen and bureau chiefs ; the presidents of 
colleges of higher education ; the deans of schools of universities and 
colleges, having different departments, and persons having the full 
rank of professor in colleges of the first grade. There were also 
included persons who had attained the rank of major, or above, in 
the military service and the rank of lieutenant commander and above 
in the naval service ; all ministers and ambassadors to foreign coun- 
tries, and United States consuls at the more important foreign posts. 
Also men who had served two or more terms in a state legislature 
or who in addition to other political preferment had been members 
of a constitutional convention and all who had been presiding offi- 
cers of either the upper or lower house of a state legislature; also 
the mayors of large cities and the executive officers of important 
corporations. In addition there were included editors of periodicals 
of general circulation and of the more important technical journals, 
authors of works of reference or of two or more books of other 
character, and a number of miscellaneous persons not readily classi- 
fied but who were deemed worthy of inclusion on general principles 
of prominence. 

The plan of the proposed book was submitted to the fraternity 
and its publication was authorized by the convention of 1913. As 
a preliminary step, there was prepared a biographical memorandum 
for each person whose name had been selected to be included and 
there was sent to all who were not known to be deceased a copy of 
such memorandum concerning himself with the request that such 
memorandum be corrected and returned. In the great majority of 
cases this was promptly done, but some names have been included 
where the memoranda has not had the benefit of such personal re- 
vision. Photographs were also requested, but this request was so 
generally disregarded, that we have been obliged to secure the bulk 
of the illustrations in the book from other sources. Several persons 
sent prints from half tones or engravings which could not be mechan- 



PREFACE 5 

ically reproduced with success, and others sent poor photos which 
could not be used, and consequently the selection of photographs 
may be regarded as a purely arbitrary one for which the editor alone 
is responsible. 

There are doubtless in the book many errors of inclusion and 
exclusion. They are unavoidable in a compilation of this kind. 
For instance, we might find a man listed as "President and General 
Manager of the Amalgamated Universal Machinery Company," 
when actually he has a desk room in a small office building in 
a village, and another man listed as "Sixth Vice President of 
the General Oil Company and Local Superintendent," and find 
that he has charge of a business of millions of dollars a year 
and has under his jurisdiction an army of thousands of men. 
The necessary knowledge to make the right selection is not within 
the grasp of any one person. It may very well result, therefore, 
that persons widely known within their own communities have been 
omitted and those relatively obscure have been included. If atten- 
tion is called to such fact, a record will be made of them for future 
use, if occasion for such use should ever arise. The statements 
are doubtless inaccurate somewhat in detail, due to forgetfulness, 
and the usual percentage of error arising from the transcription of 
hundreds of names with constantly recurring identical descriptive 
phrases and the usual errors of typesetting. The fraternity is to 
be congratulated on the magnificent showing it is enabled to make. 

Wm. Raimond Baird 
Stevens, '78; Columbia, '82 
September 1, 1914. 



INTRODUCTION 

"Betas" is the name affectionately applied to themselves by members 
of Beta Theta Pi, one of the college fraternities having lodges or chapters 
in the higher institutions of learning in the United States and Canada. This 
fraternity was organized in the summer of 1839 by John Reily Knox and 
eight other students at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. It was intended 
by its founders to be an association of men devoted to the cultiva- 
tion of the intellect and who should in its various chapters, or branches, 
become so closely associated that they would form in effect a widespread 
brotherhood throughout the country. It was made in analogy to the few 
similar collegiate organizations existing elsewhere, a secret society, but, as 
a matter of fact, the secrecy was purely nominal and its aims and pur- 
poses might have been freely disclosed without fear of criticism or com- 
ment. It was not intended at first that the association should be confined 
to undergraduates in college, but might include associations of young men 
who had had an equivalent education and who were otherwise in sympathy 
with the purposes and aims of the organization, but it soon became re- 
stricted to college men from force of circumstances. 

The association was rapidly extended from Miami to other colleges. Its 
efforts for the first twenty odd years of its existence were largely devoted 
to extending its membership, placing new chapters in strategic locations, 
and endeavoring to maintain them in existence against opposition of differ- 
ent kinds and in the face of the small attendance at many of the colleges 
and the necessarily smaller number of persons from whom it was felt its 
members should be selected. In membership, the chapters rarely exceeded 
twelve in number at any one time and were frequently less than seven. They 
had no permanent homes at the respective colleges where they were located 
and the members met In each other's rooms, frequently in secret, to avoid 
observance by the college authorities. They had little money. The system of 
government was loose and inefficient, and communication between the chap- 
ters was desultory and infrequent. 

Some of the chapters were obliged to overcome college opposition by 
admitting to their ranks college professors or administrators, and, singular 
to say, some of the men so admitted became the staunchest adherents of 
the fraternity. Amidst all these difficulties, however, the fraternity de- 



8 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

veloped a characteristic spirit and a quality of friendship which is unique, 
and even now, when it numbers nearly four score chapters scattered from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Wisconsin to Texas and has enrolled 
nearly twenty thousand members, it has maintained these characteristics. 
Willis O. Robb, Ohio Wesleyan, '79, has expressed these attributes probably 
better than anyone else. At the convention of 1890 he said: 

"Brethren of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity: The fraternal relation 
that is to some of us so dear a present joy, to others so hallowed a mem- 
ory, is to all of us something more than we are wont to think it. It con- 
sists not in forms or rites, in organizations, or bodies of laws; these are 
mere machinery. Nor does its chief glory lie only in the several friendships 
it produces and shelters, dear as these are, unrivalled as they must always 
be in freshness and in youthful ardor. Behind and beneath both these 
aspects lies its more essential character, its capacity of culture. Its rich- 
est gifts are not friends, but the desire, the power and the habit of mak- 
ing friends. These constitute the real fraternity spirit," 

The same speaker fifteen years later again expressed himself as fol- 
lows : 

"Again, the Beta is distinguishable and distinguished from all other 
kinds of fraternity men whatsoever by just a little warmer and stronger, 
just a little tenderer and more enduring fraternity feeling than any of 
them can attain to. For it was always so. I do not in the least know 
how it happened, nor why it persisted after it happened, but a long time 
there came into Beta Theta Pi a fraternity spirit that was, and is, and 
apparently will continue to be, unique. We know it, who are inside, and 
they see and record it who are outside the Beta pale. Whether young or 
old, in college or out, from the small school or the great university, we 
are conscious of a heritage of genuine fraternalism that has not been 
vouchsafed in like measure — I say it deliberately — to any other of the 
great college fraternities. And we cannot doubt that in this, as in other 
respects, our 'future will copy fair our past,' and that in the world of 
fifty years from now, as in that of years affo — as in that that lies around 
us to-day — the first mark of a Beta will be his Beta spirit." 

Down to the outbreak of the war in 1861, the fraternity had estab- 
lished chapters which were then living at the following places: Miami 
University, Oxford, Ohio, Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, Ohio 
University, Athens, Ohio, Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., Washineton 
College, Washington, Pa., Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., Indiana 
Universitv, Bloomington, Ind., the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
Mich., Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., Centre College, Danville, Ky., 
TIampden-Sidnev College, Virginia, Ohio Wesleyan Universitv, Delaware, 
Ohio, Hanover College, Hanover, Ind., Cumberland Universitv, Lebanon, 
Tenn., Knox College. Galesburg, 111., the University of Virarinia, 
Charlottesville, Va., Washington University, Lexington, Va., Illinois 



IXTRODUCTION 9 

College, Jacksonville, 111., South Carolina College, Columbia, South 
Carolina, Davidson College, North Carolina, Oglethorpe University, 
Milledgeville, Ga., and Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia. 
In addition, it had established chapters at Transylvania University, 
Lexington, Ky., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., the College of New 
Jersey, Princeton, N. J., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., and the 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C, which were then inac- 
tive. It had published one catalog, had held conventions in 1842, 1847, 1848, 
1851, 1854, 1856, 1858 and 1860, the time of which was mainly taken up 
with amendments to the constitution. Its system of government (or 
non-government) was a feeble administration by the undergraduate chap- 
ters in turn. The only thing that held the fraternity together was the fra- 
ternal spirit developed by contact among its members. 

At the outbreak of the Civil War, communication between the 
northern and southern states was severed. Our records show that, with the 
exception of a few clergymen, practically every man who had been initialed 
by the chapters at Hampden-Sidney, the University of North Carolina, 
Cumberland, the University of Virginia, Washington College, (Va.), South 
Carolina College, Davidson and Oglethorpe enlisted in the Confederate 
army, while those who had been admitted to the Centre and Bethany chap- 
ters divided equally between the two armies. North and South. Most of 
the northern chapters found their ranks depleted by the enlistment of their 
undergraduate members in the Union arm_v, and a year later the Western 
Reserve chapter became in a body part of a company of an Ohio regiment. 

During the war, but little was done to either extend the fraternity or 
further its interests and but two chapters were established, one at Beloit 
College, Wis., which lived but three or four years, and one at the United 
States Naval Academy, then located at Newport, R. I., which lived scarcely 
a year. A convention was held in 1864 at which six chapters were repre- 
sented, and one in 1865, at which nine chapters were represented. 

At the close of the war, the southern soldiers returning to college, re- 
established most of the southern chapters, and some new ones were organ- 
ized. But the feeble administration of ante-bellum times continued until 
1879, and, although the fraternity established a number of chapters and 
increased the number of attendants at each chapter and improved its ad- 
ministrative features by the establishment of the first fraternity journal in 
1872, the institution of annual conventions (instead of those at less frequent 
intervals) in 1866, and the division of the fraternity into districts for ease 
in supervision, it did little or nothing else. Some of its chapters became 
inactive at important locations and the chapters which had been estab- 



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lished at institutions which have since attained prominence were, when 
founded, not in colleges of the best grade. 

The chapters established from 1863 to 1879 and which are now 
active are as follows: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 
Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, The University of Chi- 
cago, Chicago, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Washington Uni- 
versity, St. Louis, Mo., The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., Northwestern University, Evans- 
ton, 111., Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., Boston University, Boston, 
Mass., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., University of Cali- 
fornia, Berkley, Cal., Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, and the chapters 
which were established during this period and which are not now active 
are as follows: Monmouth College, Monmouth, 111., Virginia Military In- 
stitute, Lexington, Va., Richmond College, Richmond, Va., University 
of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, Howard College, Marion, Ala., Randolph- 
Macon College, Ashland, Va., Trinity University, Tehuacana, Texas, 
the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., Virginia 
State College, Blacksburg, Va., Butler College, Irvington, Ind., and the 
University of Mississippi, Lexington, Miss. It should be added that the 
institution now called the University of Chicago is in reality a different 
institution from that at which our chapter was established originally, 
but most of the fraternity chapters located there have considered it a 
legitimate successor to the old university. 

In 1879, two events occurred which materially affected the future of 
the fraternity, namely the publication of the constitution of the fratern- 
ity and the removal therefrom of all its previous esoteric features, and 
the union with Alpha Sigma Chi, a small but vigorous eastern fratern- 
ity. It is worthy of remark that no chapter of the fraternity estab- 
lished since 1879 is now inactive. 

The union with Alpha Sigma Chi brought into the fraternity well 
established chapters at Rutgers, Cornell, Stevens, St. Lawrence and 
Maine. Almost immediately thereafter, chapters were established at 
Pennsylvania, Colgate, Union and Columbia, and were revived at Brown, 
Harvard, Western Reserve, University of Iowa and Cumberland. The 
establishment of chapters, however, was the very least of the steps in 
advance made by the fraternity at that time. Its administration was 
perfected and the management of its affairs practically placed in the 
hands of a single executive, who, although called the general secretary, 
was in reality the head of the fraternity. A new and proper catalog 



INTRODUCTION ' n 

was prepared and published, a song book was issued, the journal of the 
fraternity was improved and strengthened, and in practically every di- 
rection the progress of the fraternity was marked by improvement. 

From 1883 until 1890 a few chapters were established, namely at 
Amherst, Vanderbilt, University of Texas, Ohio State, University of Ne- 
braska, University of Denver, Syracuse, Dartmouth and Minnesota. These 
chapters only succeeded in gaining admission into the fraternity after 
strenuous and long-continued effort. A new sense of power and dignity 
in the fraternity and a feeling of confidence in its future and great re- 
spect for its efficiency made it conservative in granting to petitioning 
bodies the privilege of a charter, and during this period many more pe- 
titions were rejected than were granted. The chapter at Dartmouth had 
been a local society called Sigma Delta Pi and had existed at Dartmouth 
for about thirty years and attained an enviable reputation. All the other 
chapters mentioned had first been organized as local societies, and it may 
be said here that since that time no chapter of the fraternity has been 
established which has not undergone the test of a previous successful 
existence as a local organization. 

In 1890 a union was had with the Mystical Seven fraternity. This 
society was founded in 1837 at Wesleyan and had established chapters 
at Emory College and the University of Georgia in Georgia, Centenary 
College in Louisiana, Genesse College, which afterwards became the Uni- 
versity of Syracuse, the University of Mississippi, the University of Vir- 
ginia, Cumberland, the University of North Carolina, and Davidson Col- 
lege. It was a select organization whose chapters had been kept small 
in numbers, but whose administrative system had been bad and which, 
like Beta Theta Pi In its early days, had allowed its chapters to become 
inactive without much attempt at supervision or control. The personnel 
of the Mystical Seven, however, had been of a high quality and similar to 
that of the Beta Theta Pi, and the two fraternities found no difficulty in 
consolidating their membership, both undergraduate and alumni. The 
chapters of the Mystical Seven at Emory, Georgia and Centenary Col- 
lege have not been revived. The other chapters were revived by the 
union, although those at Mississippi and Cumberland are now Inactive. 

Since 1890 the administration of the fraternity has been efficient, the 
supervision of the chapters has been carefully attended to, they have im- 
proved steadily in scholarship and a system of compulsory attendance at 
conventions based upon a well administered financial system has resulted in 
securing a uniformity in the quality of the membership and a homogeneity 
in tastes, attributes and aspirations which has made of the fraternity a 



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unified living force in the college life of the country, and it might be added 
in its civil and social life as well. 

During the period since 1890 chapters have been placed at the University 
of Cincinnati, University of Missouri, Lehigh, Yale, Stanford, West Vir- 
ginia, Colorado, Bowdoin, Washington State, University of Illinois, Purdue, 
the Case School of Applied Science, lovi^a State College, the University of 
Toronto, the University of Oklahoma, Colorado School of Mines, Tulane 
University^ the University of Oregon, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy, South Dakota, and Utah, and revived at Williams. The chapter at 
the University of Missouri was the last surviving chapter of Z $, the only 
fraternity ever founded west of the Mississippi. 

During this period, also, there began the building of chapter houses, 
changing the organization of each chapter from that of a college secret 
society in the nature of a lodge, to a well ordered family living under its 
own roof and becoming a responsible body of men having a recognized 
place in the life of each college. At the present day forty-nine of the 
chapters own their houses and of the remaining twenty-six all but four 
occupy rented houses. When we say they own houses we mean they are 
owned by some organization of their alumni. 

The chapters which own houses report their respective valuations to 
be: Amherst, $11,500; Beloit, $17,000; Bethany, $3,000; Bowdoin, $12,000 
Brown, $18,000; California, $32,000; Chicago, $13,000; Colgate, $12,000 
Colorado, $18,000; Columbia, $25,000; Cornell, $75,000; Dartmouth, $14,000 
Denison, $12,000; DePauw, $20,000; Dickinson, $10,000; Hanover, $3,500 
Illinois, $40,000; Kansas, $30,000; Knox, $9,000; Lehigh, $12,000; Maine, 
$12,000; Michigan, $40,000; Minnesota, $12,000; Missouri, $31,000; North 
Carolina, $2,500; Northwestern, $36,000; Ohio, $7,500; Ohio State, $22,000; 
Ohio Wesleyan, $8,000; Pennsylvania, $26,000; Pennsylvania State, $16,000; 
Purdue, $20,000; Rutgers, $14,000; St. Lawrence, $15,000; Stamford, $10,- 
000; Syracuse, $15,000; Texas, $13,000; Tulane, $12,000; Union, $12,000; 
Vanderbilt, $10,000; Virginia, $12,000; Wabash, $8,000; Washington State, 
$12,000; Wesleyan, $36,000; Western Reserve, $15,000; Williams, $25,000; 
Wisconsin, $25,000; Wittenberg, $10,000, and Yale, $20,000. The total being 
$884,000. Besides this a number of the chapters own building lots and if 
these are added our investments in real estate is nearly $1,000,000, and this 
does not include the value of the equipment in 71 houses, which must be 
worth at least $200,000. Most of this property has been given by the 
alumni and stands as a monument to their loyalty and belief in the Fra- 
ternity. 

The fraternity has perfected its system of inspection and information. 
For purposes of administration it is divided into sixteen geographical dis- 



INTRODUCTION U 

tricts, each under the supervision of an assistant to the general secretary 
called a district chief. Each undergraduate member contributes annual 
dues which are used in defraying the general expenses of the fraternity 
and which serves to bring to each convention at least one delegate from 
every chapter. 

The publications of the fraternity are its catalog, periodically issued, 
a combined history and handbook, its song book and its journal. The latter 
is published eight times a year, having six regular numbers issued during 
the college year and two special numbers, one containing the minutes of 
the convention each year, and the other containing the annual re- 
ports of the chapters and a complete list of the undergraduate membership, 
and other facts of interest about each chapter. This latter number is sent 
to all members of the fraternity whose addresses are known. 

The insignia of the fraternity comprise its well known badge, its flag, 
and coat of arms and a coat of arms for each chapter designed on a proper 
heraldic system. 

There is maintained in New York City, a successful club which affords 
the usual club facilities and is of great convenience to visitors who live 
outside of the metropolis. 



A 

*WiLi,iAM Martin Abernathy, DePauw, '83, became a manufacturer 
at Kansas City, Mo. He became interested in military affairs and for some 
years was captain of the First Missouri Artillery. During the war with 
Spain he was a major and commissary. He died in 1908. 

JoHX Carey Achesox, Central, '98, was instructor of Greek at Cald- 
well College from 1897 to 1900; principal of Harrodsburg Academy from 
1899 to 1902; and president of Caldwell College from 1902 to 1913. Since 
that time he has been president of the Kentucky College for Women. He 
received the degree of LL. D. from Central University in 1913. He re- 
sides at Danville, Ky. 

George Everett Ackeriman, Northwestern, '78, was educated at the 
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Northwestern University, and the Garrett 
Biblical Institute. He received the degree of D. D. from McGill University 
on examination. After serving two charges in the Genesee Conference of 
the Methodist church, he was for fourteen years professor of Systematic 
Theology in Grant University and vice chancellor for two years. He has 
been a member of three general conferences. He is the author of "Man, a 
Revelation of God," "Uove Illumined," "Christian Praises and Other 
Poems," and a great many magazine articles. At present he is pastor of the 
First Methodist Episcopal Church at Algonac, Mich. 

John Hayne Acton, Ohio Wesleyan, '69, served in the Union army 
during the war in different positions from private to adjutant general of a 
brigade, commanding a company in the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 
the Chickamauga campaign. He became a Methodist clergyman. From 1876 
to 1881 he was editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate, and from 1881 to 
1883 of the Polaris at Portland, Oregon. He then became an independent 
clergyman at Aurora, 111., where he now resides. He has been a frequent 
contributor to religious periodicals and is the author of "Humanity's Gain 
from Unbelief" and "Denominational Difficulties and their Remedy." From 
1894 to 1905 he was a member of the board of directors of the American 
Congress of Liberal Religious Societies. 

Chari.es Hemmenway Adams, DePauw, '6-5, left college without grad- 
uating and took his A. B. degree at Yale in 1866. From 1871 to 1876 he 

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was an editor of the Springfield Bepublican, and from 1876 to 1881 on the 
New York Sun, and since then has been associate editor of the Hartford, 
Conn., Courant. He is the author of the Fraternity "Parting Song." He 
resides at Hartford. <!> B K. 

Edwin Plimpton Adams, Beloit, '99, received his Ph. D. degree from 
Harvard and became an instructor of Physics at Princeton University, 
where he now holds the chair of professor of that subject. He is a Fel- 
low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a 
member of the American Physical Society, of the American Mathematical 
Society and of the Societe Francaise de Physique. * B K. 

Frank Yale Adams, St. Lawrence, '88, was principal of schools at Es- 
sex, Naples and Crown Point, N. Y., from 1888 to 1893, and from 1893 to 
1897 was superintendent of schools at St. Johnsville, N. Y. In 1897 he 
became connected with the University of Arizona as professor of Lan- 
guages, keeping that position until 1899, when he became professor of His- 
tory and Pedagogy. From 1901 to 1903 he was president of the University 
and professor of Economics and Pedagogy. He was a delegate from Ari- 
zona to the National Education Association and president of the Arizona 
Teachers' Association. Since 1903 he has been secretary and manager of 
the California Magnesite Company, and resides at Los Angeles, Cal. "I* B K. 

George Andrew Adams, Indiana, '72, became a lawyer. He was a 
member of the Legislature of Indiana from 1883 to 1887, and 1889 to 1891. 
He moved to Lincoln, Neb., and has been mayor of Lincoln where he now 
resides. 

*George Huntington Adams, Illinois, ^66, graduated from Harvard 
in 1870. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in New York 
City. From 1870 to 1871 he was master at Deveaux College, Suspension 
Bridge, N. Y. From 1863 to 1866 he was in the Union army as captain 
of the 4th United States artillery and was breveted major. He was the 
author of "A Hand Book on the Tariff." He died in New York, April 8, 
1900. 

George Irving Adabis, Kansas '93, graduated from Princeton in 1896 
with the degree of Sc. D. In 1896 and 1897 he was a student at the Uni- 
versity of Munich. Prior to attending the University of Kansas he grad- 
uated from the Kansas State Normal School in 1899. In 1893 he became 
an instructor in Natural Science in the Kansas State Normal School. From 
1894 to 1897 he was assistant geologist of the Kansas Geological Survey 
and in 1898 and 1899 field assistant in that survey. From 1900 to 1904 he 
was a geologist connected with the LTnited States Geological Survey. In 



WILLIAM HARVEY GLENN ADNEY 17 

1904 he went to Peru as chief Hydrologist of the Corps of Engineers of 
Mines and for two years was engaged in professional work in Peru, Bolivia 
and Chili. In the year 1909-10 he was geologist in the Division of Mines in 
the Philippine Islands. He then spent a year in special study at Yale. 
Since 1912 he has been professor of Geology and Mining in the Pei Yang 
University (formerly the Imperial University) at Tientsin, China, where he 
now resides. He is a member of the Geological Society of America, the 
Institute of Mining Engineers, and other learned societies relating to his 
specialty. 2 H. 

James Aloxzo Adams, Western Reserve, '65, Knox, '67, has been since 
1903 editor of The Advance at Chicago. After his graduation in 1867 he at- 
tended the Union Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1870. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Knox College in 1899. From 1875 to 
1877 he was a professor in Straight University in New Orleans and then 
for three years was editor of The Daily Commercial of Dallas, Texas. In 
1880 he was ordained as a Congregational minister and became pastor of the 
Plymouth Church at St. Louis, where he remained until 1886, then becoming 
the pastor of the Millard Avenue Church at Chicago. In 1889 he became 
pastor of the Warren Avenue Church in Chicago and there remained until 
1895, when he gave up the ministry. In 1891 he was a delegate to the Inter- 
national Congregational Council at London, and has also represented the 
Congregational church at other international assemblies. He is the author 
of "Life of Queen Victoria," published in 1901 and has published numerous 
tracts upon Christian Science. He has written one novel, called "Colonel 
Hungerford's Daughter." 

Charles Adamsox, Pennsylvania, '80, was one of the founders of the 
Pennsylvania chapter and graduated with the degree of B. S. He also 
obtained his LL. B. degree in 1882. He was in active practice as a lawyer 
in Philadelphia from 1883 to 1890. Since then he has been engaged in dif- 
ferent enterprises at Cedartown, Georgia, such as land improvements and 
cotton monufactures. He is president of the Cedartown Cotton & Export 
Co., and has taken a prominent part in Georgia politics. He was a delegate 
to the National Republican National Conventions of 1896, 1904 and 1908. 
His residence is in Philadelphia. 

*WiLLiAM Harvey Glexx Adney, Ohio, '60, graduated as valedictor- 
ian of his class. In 1861 he entered the Union army as a private and 
served through the war, becoming colonel of the 36th Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. From 1865 to 1868 he was principal of the preparatory depart- 
ment of Ohio LTniversity and from 1868 to 1872 professor of Mathematics; 



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from 1872 to 1873 professor of Natural Science. From 1873 to 1880 he 

was professor of Natural Science at Washington and Jefferson College. In 

1881 he moved to Pittsboro, N. C, and a year later to Chapel Hill, N. C, 
and became a farmer. He died at Chapel Hill June 6, 1885. 

Henry Martin Aiken^ Washington & Jefferson, '63, is a prominent 
banker of Knoxville, Tenn. He graduated from the law department of the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1864. From 1870 to 1878 he was clerk of the 
United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and from 
1877 to 1888 president of the Rogersville & Jefferson R. R. 

John (Bartlett) Alden, Rutgers, '82, graduated with the degree of 
A. B. and started out as a reporter. He was the Washington correspon- 
dent of the Brooklyn Times from 1882 to 1886, and was news editor of the 
New York Press in 1888. Since then he has held a number of positions as 
editor and editorial writer, having been associated with the Brooklyn Eagle 
since 1901. Since 1904 he has published one bit of verse each day in the 
Eagle and has written over 3,500 small poems. He is the 9th in direct 
descent from John Alden of the Mayflower. He resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

*Peleg Emory Ai.drich, Harvard, '44, graduated in the law depart- 
ment and began practice at Worcester, Mass. He was district attorney 
from 1847 to 1859; member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Conven- 
tion of 1853; mayor of Worcester, 1861-66; member of the Massachusetts 
Legislature 1868-70, and judge of the Superior Court from 1873 to 1895. 
He was the author of "Equity Pleading and Practice in Massachusetts," 
"Criminal Laws of Massachusetts," and many pamphlets and addresses. 
He was a trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a member of 
the State Board of Health and held many other positions of honor and 
trust. He died at Worcester in 1895. 

*WiLLiAM Allan, Virginia, '60, entered the Confederate army in 
1861. He had a notable army record and was chief ordnance officer on 
the staffs of Generals Stonewall Jackson, A. O. Hill, Ewell and Early, 
serving from 1861 to 1865 and rising in rank from captain to colonel. From 
1866 to 1873 he was professor of Applied Mathematics at Washington and 
Lee University. He then became principal of the McDonogh Institute, a 
position which he retained until his death, which occurred Sept. 7, 1889, 
From 1873 to 1889 he was a trustee of Washington-Lee. He was the au- 
thor of a number of books relating to the technical side of the war, not- 
ably "Battle Fields of Virginia — Chancellorsville," and "History of Gen. 
Stonewall Jackson's Campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah." He was 



JOHN MILLS ALLEX 19 

also the author of "Notes on Rankine's iVj^pliecl Mechanics," "The Theory 
of Arches," "The Strength of Beams,' etc., and was a contributor to very 
many educational and scientific journals. He wrote a biography of John 
McDonogh of the McDonogh Institute. He was at one time cashier of the 
First National Bank of Stauton, Va., and for many years was a director 
of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. 

Andrews Allen, Wisconsin, '91, graduated with the degree of B. C. E. 
He was draftsman and engineer of the Edge Moor Bridge Works from 
1891 to 1899, and contracting engineer of tlie Wisconsin Bridge and Iron 
Company from 1899 to 1911. Since 1911 he has been president of the Allen 
& Garcia Company, consulting and constructing engineers, of Chicago. 
He was president of the Western Society of Engineers in 1909. He re- 
sides in Chicago. T B 11. 

Charles Plummer Allen, Maine, '76, is a lawyer and resides at Pres- 
que Isle, Maine. He was treasurer of Presque Isle from 1879 to 1889, 
county attorney of Aroostock county from 1882 to 1886 and a member of 
the Maine Legislature from 1890 to 1892. Since 1889 he has been a trustee 
of the University of Maine. From 1891 to 1894 he was colonel and judge 
advocate general of the Maine National Guard. 

Hejian Hoyt Allen, Central, '.55, was valedictorian of his class. He 
received his A. M. degree in 1858, at which time he also graduated from the 
Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Danville, Ky., and entered the min- 
istry of the Presbyterian cluirch. In 18.56 and 1857 he was principal of an 
Academy at Pontotoc, Miss., and after that for 25 years was pastor of 
various Presbyterian churches in different parts of Kentucky. From 1866 
to 1870 he was editor of the Western Presbyterian. From 1881 to 1893 he 
was principal of the Princeton, Ky., Collegiate Institute. Since 1869 he has 
been a trustee of Centre College and Central University and since 1866 a 
director of the Danville Theological Seminary, having been president of the 
board from 1870 to 1876. He is now retired from active service and re- 
sides at Washington, D. C. He received the degree of D. D. from Centre 
College in 1882. 

John Mills Allen, Cumberland, '70, left college without graduating 
and graduated at the Law School of the University of Mississippi in 1870. 
He at once began the practice of law at Tupelo, Miss., and has resided 
there ever since. He was district attorney for the 1st Judicial district of 
Mississippi from 1876 to 1880. He was a member of Congress from 1885 to 
1901, when he declined a renomination. He was widely known in Congress 



20 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

as "Private" Allen, because he served as a private in the Confederate army 
from 1861 to 1865 and humorously declared he was the only private in that 
army, everyone else having become a colonel. He is interested in many 
local industrial corporations and is a director of the First National Bank 
of Tupelo and of the Peoples' Trust Co. 

Thomas Allen^ Washington, '73, is one of the best known painters in 
the United States. In summer he resides at Princeton, Mass., and in win- 
ter in Boston. After leaving Washington University he attended the Royal 
Academy at Dusseldorf and graduated there in 1877. He studied in France 
for three years and has exhibited paintings at a number of French salons. 
He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880 and 
an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1887. He is president 
of the Paint and Clay Club at Boston, and of the Boston Society of Water 
Color Painters. At the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 he was chairman of 
the Department Jury of Fine Arts and of the International Jury of 
Awards. Previous to that he had been one of the judges of awards at the 
Chicago Exposition. He was also one of the judges of awards at the Ten- 
nessee Centennial in 1897. He is a fellow in perpetuity of the Metropolitan 
Museum. He is a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and chair- 
man of the council and of the faculty of the School of Museum of Fine 
Arts. Since 1910 he has been chairman of the City Art Commission of Bos- 
ton. He is president of the Macallen Company, of the Wellesley Knitting 
Mills and of the Stuart Club Corporation. He is vice president of the 
Copley Society and is a member of a large number of clubs. Representa- 
tions of his work are to be found in the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mu- 
seum of Fine Arts of Boston, the Berkshire Athenaeum at Pittsfield, and 
many private collections. 

*Akdrew Allison^ Cumberland, '60, graduated from the law school in 
. 1861. He entered the Confederate army as lieutenant of the 7th Tennessee 
Infantry. From 1872 to 1886 he was attorney for the Louisville & Nash- 
ville R. R. From 1886 to 1890 he was chancellor of the Nashville Chancery 
Court. From 1888 to 1894 he was professor of Commercial Law and 
Equity at Vanderbilt University. He died at Nashville in 1894. 

Joseph Alexander Altsheler, Vanderbilt, '85, is one of the editors of 
the New York World, with which he has been connected for twenty years. 
He is the author of the "following novels: "The Sun of Saratoga," "A Soldier 
of Manhattan," "Herald of the West," "The Last Rebel," "In Circling 
Camps," "In Hostile Red," "The Wilderness Road," "My Captive," "Before 
the Dawn," "Guthrie of the Times," "The Candidate," "The Young Trail- 




THOMAS ALLEN 
Washington '73 




JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER 
Vanderbllt '85 



nVTLKR PRESTOX ANDERSON 21 

ers," "The forest Runners," "The Recovery," "The Free Rangers," "The 
Last of the Chiefs," "The Riflemen of the Ohio," "The Scouts of the Valley," 
"The Border Watch," "The Quest of the Hour," "The Texas Star," "The 
Texan Scouts," "The Texan Triumph," "Apache Gold," "The Gems of Bull 
Run," "The Gems of Sliiloh," "The Horsemen of the Plains." He resides in 
New York Cit>'. 

*James Markham Mahshall Ambler, Washington & Lee, '67, gradu- 
ated in medicine from the University in Maryland in 1870. He became 
connected with the Marine Hospital service in 1873 and in 1874 became a 
surgeon in the United States navy. He was assigned to the "Jeannette" 
and perished witli Capt. De Long's party near the mouth of the Lena 
River in Siberia October, 1881. 

Joseph Bushnell Ames, Stevens, '01, is engaged in editorial work and 
is the author of a number of boys' books of adventure, including "The 
Treasure of the Canyon," "Pete, the Cowpuncher," etc. He resides at 
Morristown, N. J. 

Archer Andersox, Virginia, '56, after leaving the University of Vir- 
ginia studied for a year at the University of Berlin. In 1861 he entered the 
Confederate army as a private and became attached to the 21st Virginia 
Regiment. He was then promoted to the rank of captain and became an 
assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Trimble. In 1862 he was 
promoted to the rank of major and became assistant adjutant general on 
the staff of General Holmes. In 1863 he was promoted to the position of 
lieutenant-colonel and became assistant adjutant general on the staff of 
Lieut.-Gen. D. H. Hill. Later he served on the staffs of varioiis generals in 
the Confederate service and at the close of the war was principal assistant 
adjutant general of the Army of Tennessee. From 1867 to 1892 he was 
treasurer of the Tredegar Company and since 1892 has been president of 
the same company. He resides at Richmond, Va. 

*Butler Preston Anderson, Washington & Jefferson, '49, studied law 
and after his graduation removed to Oregon where he was United States 
District Attorney from 1852 to 1861. When the war broke out he returned 
to his native home at Mempliis, Tenn., and entered the Confederate army, 
rising rapidly to the rank of major-general. After the war he practiced 
law at Memphis. In 1877 he became president of the Howard's Association, 
a voluntary organization designed to combat epidemics of sickness and in 
1878, Sept. 2nd, he died of yellow fever at Grenada, Miss., serving with this 
association. 



22 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Frank Maloy Andersox^ Minnesota, '94, after graduation became an 
instructor in history at the University of Minnesota, in 1898 he became an 
assistant professor and from 1905 to 1914 professor in that subject. In 
1914 he became professor of liistory at Dartmouth College. He pursued 
post-graduate studies at Harvard and at Paris during intervals in teach- 
ing. He is the author of "Outlines and Documents of English Constitu- 
tional History," and "Documents Illustrative of the History of France." 
He has also written much on historical subjects for various periodicals. 
From 1911 to 1914 he was a member of the Minneapolis Charter Commis- 
sion. He resides at Hanover, N. H. 

Harold Be^^tley Akderson, Case, '01, since his graduation has been 
engaged in designing and manufacturing self-propelled vehicles of differ- 
ent types, and since 1904 has been chief engineer of the Winton Motor Car 
Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automobile Engineers, the Society 
for Testing Materials, and the International Association. He is the in- 
ventor and patentee of a large number of devices relating to the automo- 
bile industry, including steering gears, self-starting devices, lubrication 
systems, carburators, ignition apparatus, transmissions and systems of 
dust prevention. He resides at Cleveland, Ohio. 

Martin Augustits Anderson, Wisconsin, '80, graduated from the U. 

S. Naval Academy in 1881, and served through various ranks until he 

became a commander in the Navy. He is now retired and resides at 
Washington, D. C. 

*Edward Gayer Andrews, Wesleyan, '47, after his graduation at col- 
lege became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a pastor 
at various churches in Central New York from 1848 to 1854, and then be- 
came principal of Cazenovia Seminary, a position which he continued to 
hold until 1864. From 1864 to 1872 he was a pastor of churches in Stam- 
ford, Conn., and in Brooklyn. In 1872 he was elected a bishop of the Meth- 
odist church and as such, from 1872 to 1888, visited the missions of the 
church in Europe, Mexico and Asia. From 1888 until the time of his death 
in 1907, he resided in New^ York City. He received the degree of D. D. 
from Genesee College in 1862, and LL. D. from Allegheny in 1881. He was 
an honorary member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. $ B K. 

Charies Martin Andrist, Minnesota, '94, after his graduation, was 
instructor of French and German at the University of Minnesota from 
1894 to 1899. From 1899 to 1907 he resided in France. From 1907 to 1910 
he was assistant professor and since the last mentioned date has been pro- 



WILLIAM DALLAM ARMES 23 

fessor of Romance Languages at the University of Minnesota. He is the 
author of "A Critical Study of the Various Manuscripts of the Life of St. 
Alexis," the "Influence of Language Study upon Character" and "Balzac 
and His Works." He was Democratic candidate for governor of Minne- 
sota in 1912, but was defeated. He was one of the founders of Lambda 
Alpha Psi, an honorary . society for the promotion of the study of lan- 
guages. He is a member of the Modern Language Association. 

Horace Francis Anthony, Iowa State, '05, has been resident en- 
gineer and assistant superintendent of the Illinois division and later as- 
sistant superintendent of the entire work in the building of the world's 
greatest water power development in the Mississippi river at Keokuk. He 
was acting superintendent of the Illinois division much of the time during 
its construction and had nnich of the responsibility for the building of the 
great dam in the Mississi])pi. 'Since 1906 he has been engaged in engineer- 
ing, designing hydraulic work and in work in connection with recognoizance 
and reports on various water-power developments. His headquarters are 
in New York, and his permanent address is Camanclie, Iowa. 

*Geougk D. vVrcitihai.i), Washington & Jefferson, 't-T, attended the Al- 
legheny Theological Seminary and after graduation there in 1849 entered 
the Presbyterian ministry. From 1868 to 1870 he was president of Han- 
over College. From 1870 to 1873 professor of Moral and Mental Science 
at Centre College. From 1873 to 1874 president of Wilson College, Pa. 
From 1874 to 1883 professor of Theology at the Danville, Ky., Theological 
Seminary. From 1883 to 1884 professor of Mental and Moral Science at 
Wooster University. He retired in 1884 and resided at Covington, Ky., 
until his death in 1902. He received the degree of D. D. from Hanover 
College in 186.5. 

William Kavanaugit ;Vrgo, Central, '79, is an autliority upon the 
instruction and training of the deaf, mute and blind. From 1885 to 1893 lie 
was superintendent of the Kentucky Institute for Deaf Mutes and since 
1898 has been superintendent of tlie Colorado School for the Deaf and the 
Blind at Colorado Springs, Colo. 

William Dallam Armes, California, '82, received the degree of M. I>. 
from California in 1895. In 1886-87 he attended the University of Strass- 
burg and in 1906-07 Harvard. He is associate professor of American Lit- 
erature at the University of California. He has edited a large number of 
American and English classics. 



24 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

William Hepbur^t Armstrong^ Princeton, '47, received his Master's 
degree in 1856. From 1860 to 1862 he was a member of the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania and from 1870 to 1872 a member of Congress. At the time oT 
the inauguration of President Lincoln he was appointed a member of the 
committee to escort the president to Washington. He was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention at Pennsylvania in 1874. From 1881 to 1885 he 
was United States Commissioner of Railroads. He resides at the Bellevue- 
Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Joseph Addison Arnold, Indiana, '78, was editor and publisher of 
The Democi-at at Columbus, Ind., from 1880 to 1885. Since then he has 
been in the employ of the government.. He was in the government printing 
office from 1885 to 1891 ; and with the division of publications in the De- 
partment of Agriculture since 1891, becoming editor and chief of the Di- 
vision in 1909. He resides in Washington, D. C. 

Morris Allen Arnold, Missouri, '86, became a banker at Sedalia, Mo. 
He subsequently removed to Seattle, Wash. He is president of the First 
National Bank of Seattle and of the Seattle Clearing House. 

Morris LeRoy Arnold, Minnesota, '04, received an M. A. degree from 
Harvard in 1905 and a Ph. D. from Columbia in 1901. He was assistant 
professor in the English Graduate School at Columbia in 1907-08; was 
acting head of the Department of English Literature at the University of 
Minnesota in 1905-06, and since 1909 has held the chair of English Liter- 
ature at Hamline University. He is the author of "The Soliloquies of 
Shakespeare." He resides at Minneapolis. 

Theodore Prospere Artaud, Johns Hopkins, "02, was for a time pur- 
chasing agent for the Hudson and Manhattan R. R. Co. in New York City. 
He is now in the employ of the Interstate Commerce Commission .at Wash- 
ington and has charge of the entire appraisals of land for it throughout the 
United States. He resides at Washington, D. C. 

*Frank Askew, Michigan, '58, entered the Union army in 1861 as 
colonel of the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and left the army in 1865 as a 
brevet brigadier-general. He became a general merchant at Kansas City. 
Mo., where he died April 28, 1902. 

Gaius Glenn Atkins, Ohio State, '88, graduated at the Cincinnati 
Law School in 1891. He was afterwards a student at the Yale Divinity 
School. He has been pastor of the Congregational churches at Greenfield, 
Mass., from 1895 to 1900; at Burlington, Vt., from 1900 to 1906; at De- 
troit from 1906 to 1910, and since then at the Central Congregational 



PETER TOWXSEXD ATSTEN 25 

church at Providence, R. I. He has been a contributor to religious jour- 
nals and is the author of two lx)oks. He received a D. D. degree from the 
University of Vermont in 1901. and from Dartmouth in 1906. 4> B K. 

John Detwiler Atkinson, Indiana, '87, received the degree of A. B. 
from Waynesburg College in 1887. He then studied law and began to 
practice at Seattle. From 1890 to 1893 he was secretary to and a mem- 
ber of the Washington State Board of Education. From 1900 to 1904 he 
was auditor of the State of Washington and from 1905 to 1909 attorney 
general of the state. He resides at Seattle. 

George Parkin Atwater, Kenyon, '95, graduated from the Bexley 
Theological School in 1898. He has been rector of the Episcopal church 
of Our Savior at Akron, Ohio, since 1899. He was delegate to the Pan- 
Anglican Congress at London in 1908. He was president of the Citizens 
Welfare League of Akron and had charge of 800 citizen-police during the 
big strike in 1913. He is the author of two books. He resides at Akron, 
Ohio. <!> B K. 

John Murray Atwood, St. Lawrence, '89, graduated from the Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1893 and became a Universalist clergyman. He be- 
came pastor of a Universalist church at Minneapolis, Minn. Since 1903 he 
has been a professor in the St. I^awrence LTniversity Theological School at 
Canton, N. Y., and for a time was president of such school. He received 
the degree of D. D. from St. Lawrence in 1906. He resides at Canton, N. Y. 
*BK. 

WiLLiAjr Goodwin Aurelio, Boston, '94, served as a teacher for two 
years and then studied in Germany at the I^niversity of Gottingen from 
1897 to 1899. He has been professor of Greek at Boston LTniversity since 
1903. He is a member of the American Philological Association, the Arch- 
aeological Institute of America, the New England Classical Association and 
the Indogermanische Gessellschaft. <!> B K. 

*Peter Townsend Austen, Rutgers, '72, graduated from tlie Columbia 
School of Mines and received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of 
Zurich. He was professor of Chemistry at Rutgers until 1891, when he re- 
signed to become a patent expert in litigation relating to chemical patents 
and to engage in private chemical practice. From 1893 to 1898 he was pro- 
fessor of Chemistry at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and was a Uni- 
versity extension lecturer for several colleges. He was a member of many 
of the American and foreign chemical societies and was president of the 
American Chemical Society for some years. He was state chemist of New 
Jersey from 1878 to 1887. He died at New York in 1907. 



26 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

WiLLABD Austen^ Cornell, '91, since 1892 has been assistant librarian and 
reference librarian at Cornell University. In 1908 and 1909 he was president 
of the New York Library Association. He has delivered special lectures be- 
fore the Library Schools at Albany and at the New York public library, and 
during the college year delivers lectures on Bibliography at Ithaca. He has 
contributed to various educational reviews and journals, and is a member of 
the American Library Association and the American Bibliographical Society. 
He has been active in work for the Fraternity and has been president of the 
board of trustees of the Cornell Chapter and of the district in which that 
chapter is located. 

Earl Amos Averill, Cornell, '00, is managing editor of the Railway Age 
Gazette, mechanical edition, and editor of the American Engineer. He is an 
associate member of the American Society of Engineers, a member of the 
Master Car Builders' Association and the Railway Master Mechanics' Asso- 
ciation. He is a lieutenant in the naval militia of New York. He resides at 
Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 

Alphonso Calhoux Avery, North Carolina, '57, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as 1st lieu- 
tenant in the 6th North Carolina Infantry. In 1862 he became a captain and 
major and was assistant adjutant general on the staff of Generals Hill, 
Breckenridge, Hindman and Hood, and in 1864 and 1865 commanded a 
battalion. After the war he settled at Morgantown, N. C, where he now 
resides. He was a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1866 to 1870 
and of the Constitutional Convention of 1875. In 1876 he was presidential 
elector. He was judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina from 1878 
to 1889 and has been judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina since 
1889. 

Charles Dwtght Avery, Minnesota, '03, graduated from the Michi- 
gan College of Mines in 1903. He is a civil and mining engineer. He is a 
surveyor of Mineral Deposits for the general land office of the Department 
of the Interior and is the detailed inspector under the Carey Act of the 
General Land Office for Wyoming and Montana. He is located at Chey- 
enne, Wyo., and his permanent address is the L^niversity Club, Salt Lake 
City. 

Leonard Porter Ayres, Boston, '02, after graduation engaged in educa- 
tional work in Porto Rico, passing through successive grades as teacher, 
district superintendent of schools, city superintendent of schools for San 
Juan, and finally general superintendent of schools for the Island of Porto 
Rico and chief of the Insular Division of Statistics. Since 1908 he has 



STEPHEX COOPER AYRES 27 

been connected with the Russell Sage Foundation. He did graduate work 
at Columbia University, 1907-09, and was lecturer on Statistics at New 
York University in 1908; Boston University in 1909-10; New York Univer- 
sity in 1912; University of Illinois in 1913, and University of Colorado, 
1913. He is author of a "Course of Study for Schools of San Juan," 
"Medical Inspection of Schools," "Laggards in Our Schools," "Open Air 
Schools," "Seven Great Foundations," "Medical Inspection of Schools," "A 
Quantitative Study of the Legibility of Handwriting," "A Comparative 
Study of Public School Systems in the Forty-eight States," "The Spelling 
Vocabularies of Personal and Business Letters," and more than 200 con- 
tributions to professional and scientific periodicals. He is a member of 
the American Statistical Association and many other professional organi- 
zations and is director of the Division of Education and Statistics of the 
Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. 

Stephen Cooper Ayres, Miami, "61, is a well known oculist of Cincin- 
nati. After his graduation from college he entered the Union army as a 
medical cadet and attained the rank of captain in 1865. He has been a 
lecturer at the Cincinnati hospital for many years and was professor of 
Ophthalmology at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and the 
Medical College of Ohio, which is now a department of the University of 
Cincinnati from 1898 to 1910. He was a delegate to the International 
Ophthalmological Congress in 1905, and is a member of many learned soci- 
eties. He was chairman of the section on Ophthalmology of the American 
Medical Association in 1889. 




WASHINGTON I. BABB 
Iowa Wesleyan '66 




WM. RAIMOND BAIRD 

Stevens '78 



B 



Max Wellington Babb^ Iowa Wesleyan, '95, is a lawyer practicing 
in Milwaukee. He is vice president and general attorney for the AUis- 
Chalmers Manufacturing Company. 

Washington Irving Babb, Iowa Wesleyan, '66, served for two years 
in the volunteer service of the Northern army during the war. After 
graduation he studied law and entered upon the practice of his profession 
at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and soon became one of the leading lawyers of 
Iowa. He was a member of the Iowa Legislature in 1884. From 1890 
to 1895 he was judge of the 2nd Judicial District of Iowa. He was Dem- 
ocratic candidate for governor of Iowa in 1885 and in 1886 received the 
vote of that party in the Legislature for United States senator. He re-' 
moved to Aurora, 111., in 1906 and has since been engaged in large busi- 
ness enterprises. He is president of the Western Wheeled Scraper Com- 
pany, vice president of the old Second National Bank, chairman of the 
board of directors of the Austin Manufacturing Company and the Austin 
Western Road Machinery Company of Chicago, and president of the In- 
land Fuel Company and the Western Iowa Development Company. Since 
1873 he has been one of the trustees of Iowa Wesleyan and from 1897 to 
1906 regent of the State University of Iowa. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from Iowa Wesleyan in 1897 and University of Iowa in 1907. He 
resides at Aurora, 111. 

Charles Sumner Bacox, Beloit, '78, took his M. D. degree at North- 
western University in 1884 and began to practice medicine in Chicago, 
and is still located there. At different times he has taken post-graduate 
work in Germany and Vienna. He has been Professor of Obstetrics at the 
University of Illinois Medical Scliool since 1903. He is attending obstet- 
rician to several Cliicago hospitals and a member of a number of medical 
societies. He resides in Chicago. N 2; N. 

*Edwabd Savage Bacon, Michigan, '50, studied law and practiced it at 
Niles, Michigan. When the war broke out he entered the L^nion army in 
the 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry as a captain and attained the suc- 
cessive ranks of major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel, serving throughout 
the war. He died at Niles, Mich., April 25, 1901. 

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V 

*RoBEiiT jAaiEs Bacox, Georgia, '51, was a planter at Baconton, Ga. 
From 1861 to 1864 he was a member of the lower house of the Georgia Leg- 
islature and from 1864 to 1866 of the upper house. He died at Baconton in 
1907. 

William Wilson Baden^ Johns Hopkins, '81, graduated from tlie law 
department of the University of Maryland in 1883. He was professor of 
Greek at Central University, Kentucky, from 1893 to 1899, of Latin at the 
University of Idaho from 1899 to 1906, and of Latin at the University of 
Mississippi since 1906. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hop- 
kins in 1892. 

W^iLLiAM Bacox Bailey, Yale, '94, received his Ph. D. degree from 
Yale in 1896, and since 1896 he has been successively instructor, assistant 
professor and professor of Political Economy at Yale. In 1913 he was 
lecturer on Economics at Wesleyan. He is the author of "Modern Social 
Conditions," and is editor-in-chief of the quarterly publications of the 
American Statistical Association. He is president of the Connecticut 
Prison Reform Association. He was expert special agent of the Bureau of 
the Census from 1909 to 1913, and supervisor of the census for the state of 
Connecticut in 1910. He has been very active in matters of social and civil 
reform. He resides at New Haven. # B K. 

William Raimoxd Baiud^ Stevens, '78, Columbia, '82, graduated in 
1882 from the School of Political Science at Columbia and simultaneously 
from the Columbia Law School. He is a patent specialist and a member 
of the firm of Baird, Cox, Kent & Campbell. For many years he was pres- 
ident of the New York Correspondence School of La.w. He is patent coun- 
sel for many industrial enterprises and director in many corporations. He 
is the author of "The Principles of American Law," "The Study of Lan- 
guages" and lecturer on patents at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is 
an expert minerologist and a member of La Societe Mineralogique de 
France and the Society of Chemical Industry. He is the author of "Ameri- 
can College Fraternities" and has written much on fraternal topics, con- 
tributing the articles on this subject to several encyclopedias, including the 
Britannica. He was general secretary of Alpha Sigma Chi before its union 
with Beta Theta Pi. Since 1893 he has been editor of the Beta Theta Pt 
and has been secretary of some conventions and president of others. He is 
author of "The Handbook of Beta Theta Pi" and editor of "Betas of 
Achievement" and has edited two editions of the fraternity catalog. From 
1882 to 1893 he was secretary of the Council of Phi Delta Phi and while act- 
ing as such founded the "Brief." With his wife, he was the donor of the 




H. SHERIDAN BAKETEL, 
Dartmouth '95 




JOHN BASCOM 
Williams '49 



ORLANDO HARRISOX BAKER 31 

chapter house of the Wesleyan chapter, called the Raimond Duy Baird 
Memorial, after his son, Raimond Duy Baird, Wesleyan, '09, who died in 
1911. He resides at South Orange, N. J., and practices in New York City. 
* A *, T B n. 

♦Clement Morelle Baker, St. Lawrence, '85, took his Master's de- 
gree in 1888. From 1885 to 1890 he was instructor in Latin at St. Law- 
rence University and from 1890 to 1892 was professor of Latin at that 
University. He died at Canton, N. Y., in 1892. 

Franklin Thomas Baker, Dickinson, '85, is professor of English at 
the Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. After his gradu- 
ation at Dickinson, he taught in various secondary schools; for five years 
in the DickiiLson Prei)aratory School. He studied at Harvard and at 
Columbia and received the degree of A. M. from Columbia in 1900 and 
the degree of Litt. D. in 1908 from Dickinson. Since 1892 he has been 
connected with the Teachers College. He is the editor of a number of 
English classics, including the "De Coverly Papers," "Browning's Shorter 
Poems," "Silas Marner," "Cranford," "The Idylls of the King," etc. He 
is joint autiior of the "Teaching of English" and a lunnber of text books 
in the field of Englisli in elementary schools. Since 1897 he has been a 
member of the National Conference on College Entrance Requirements 
in English and is now president of the National Council of Teachers of 
English. <!> B K. 

George Titus Bakeii, Cornell, '79, is a civil engineer and president of 
the Davenport Improvement Ctimpany at Davenport, Iowa, where he re- 
sides. He is also president of tiie Washington & Clioctaw Railway. He 
has been a member of the Legislature and mayor of Davenport, and is now 
a member of the Iowa State Board of Education. 

»Orlaxi)o Haurisox Baker, DePauw, *58, graduated with honors. He 
became a teacher and was principal of the Cherry Grove, 111., Seminary 
from 1858 to 1860 and from 1862 to 1863; of the Des Moines Conference 
Seminary from 1863 to 1886, and the Glenwood Collegiate Institute from 
1866 to 1868. He was professor of Ancient Languages at Simpson College 
from 1868 to 1871 and president of Algona College from 1871 to 1875. He 
then traveled through the southern states and Mexico as special corres- 
pondent of the Inter-Ocean of Chicago. From 1880 to 1886 he was editor 
of the Herald of Indianola, Iowa. He then entered the consular service 
and was Consul at Copenhagen from 1892 to 1894, at Sydney until 1908 
and at Sandakan, Borneo, from 1908 to 1913. He died August 6, 1913. He 
received the degree of LL. D. from Simpson College in 1905. 



32 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Thomas Stockham Baker, Johns Hopkins, '91, graduated with the de- 
gree of A. B. and obtained his Ph. D. degree in 1895. He was associate 
professor in German at Johns Hopkins from 1895 to 1900 and lecturer, 
at the same institution, on German literature from 1900 to 1908. He was 
professor of German at the Jacob Tome Institute from 1900 to 1908 and 
since then has been director of the Institute. For ten years he was musical 
critic for the Baltimore Sun. He has been a frequent contributor of arti- 
cles to papers and magazines. He resides at Port Deposit, Md. 

*WiLLiAM Baker, Harvard, '44, graduated from Denison University 
in the class of 1841, and then entered the Harvard Law School. He be- 
gan the practice of law at Toledo, Ohio, and lived there all of his life. He 
was a specialist in corporation law. He was one of the organizers, a di- 
rector of and general counsel for the Toledo & Wabash Railway. He was 
president of the Milburn Wagon Co., and interested in many industrial 
enterprises. He was a trustee of Denison University for many years. He 
died Nov. 17, 1894. 

Harry Sheridax Baketel, Dartmouth, '95, is a physician and editor 
of the Medical Times in New York, N. Y. He has been a contributing 
editor of the Practical Druggist and an associate editor of The Centaur. 
He has written much on medical topics for the difiPerent professional 
journals. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the 
American Urological Association, the American Association of Medical 
Jurisprudence and is a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of 
the United States army. He has been an instructor in the Long Island 
College Hospital and is the author of a text book on Uro-Genital dis- 
eases. 

Citart.es Moxtague Bakewei.t,, California, '89, is professor of Philos- 
ophy at Yale, which position he has held since 1905. After his gradua- 
tion he attended Harvard, from which he received the degree of Ph. D. in 
1884, and then attended the Universities of Berlin, Strassburg and Paris. 
After his return to the LTnited States in 1896 he became instructor in Phil- 
osophy, first at Harvard and then at the University of Califoria. In 1898 
he was made professor of Bryn Mawr College, in 1900 at the University of 
California, and in 1905 accepted his present position. He is the author of 
numerous namphlets and essavs growing,- out of his professional work and 
of a book on "The Source of Ancient Philosophy." 

Lewis Warrixgtoj^ Baldwin, Lehigh, '96, became a railroad engineer. 
He is the engineer in charge of the maintenance of way of the Illinois 
Central Railroad. He resides in Chicago. 



VOLNEY GILES BARBOUR 33 

William Wuight Baldwin, Iowa, '66, is vice president of the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railway, which position he has occupied for several 
years. Prior to that time, for a number of years, he was an assistant to 
the president of that railway. After graduating from the University of 
Iowa in 1866, he studied law and was admitted to» the bar, and from 18T9 
to 1891 was a land commissioner for Iowa and Nebraska. He is president 
of the South End Land Company of Houston, Texas; president of the 
board of trustees for the Burlington Free Library and interested in many 
local enterprises. During the latter part of the war he served as a private 
in the 44th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He resides at Burlington, Iowa. 

HowLAXD Bancroft, Colorado, '07, Michigan, '07, is a mining geolo- 
gist practicing at Denver, Colo. He is the author of numerous books relat- 
ing to his professional work, among others, "Reconnaissance of the Ore 
Deposits in Northern Yuma County, Arizona," "Ore Deposits of Northwes- 
tern Washington State," co-author (with J. D. Irving) of "Geology and Ore 
Deposits in the Vicinity of Lake City, Colorado." Also of various article.s 
relating to professional subjects. From 1907 to 1912 he was connected 
with the U. S. Geological Survey. In 1913 he was acting professor of 
Geology at the University of Colorado. He is a member of a number of 
professional societies. He discovered the mineral Ferritungstite. He is a 
recognized authority on the commercial possibilities of metalliferous de- 
posits. 

Waitmax Barbe, West Virginia, '84, is professor of English in West 
Virginia LTniversity and director of the summer school of that University. 
He is also editor of the West Virginia School Journal, and served for six 
years on the board of regents of tlie State Normal School. He has the de- 
gree of Litt. D. from Denison University and has done graduate work at 
Harvard and at Oxford University, England. Before engaging in educa- 
tional work he was managing editor of the Daili/ State Journal at Parkers- 
burg, W. Va. He is the author of "Ashes and Incense" (poems), "In the 
Virginias" (stories), "Going to College," "Famous Poems Explained," and 
"Great Poems Interpreted" (educational) — tlie last named being tlie result 
of his studies in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. He resides at Morgan- 
town, W. Va. * B K. 

*VoLNEY Giles Barbofr, Michigan, '62, did not complete his college 
course, but entered the Northern army, serving for a short time in the 5th 
Connecticut Infantry. He went to Yale and graduated with the B. Ph. degree 
in 1867. He adopted civil engineering as a profession, but in 1869 accepted 
the chair of Civil Engineering at the University of Vermont, a position 



34 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

which he held until his death, whicli occurred June 4, 1901. He received 
the honorary degree of C. E. from Vermont in 1887. 

Shepard BarclaYj Virginia, '69, took his A. B. degree at St. Louis Uni- 
versity in 1867. After graduating in law at the University of Virginia, he 
studied in Paris and Berlin during 1870, 1871 and 1872. He was judge of 
the Circuit Court of Missouri from 1883 to 1888 and of the Supreme Court 
of Missouri from 1889 to 1898, being chief justice from 1897 to 1898. He 
was judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals from 1901 to 1903. He is now 
in active practice in St. Louis. 

Edward Emerson Barnard, Vanderbilt, '87, is astronomer of the 
Yerkes Observatory and professor of Practical Astronomy at the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, which position he has held since 1895. Immediately after 
his graduation from college he became an astronomer at the Lick Observa- 
tory in California. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and 
associate fellow of the American Academy, a member of the American Phil- 
osophical Society and of the Royal Astronomical Societj'" of Canada and a 
similar society of France. In 1898 he was vice president of tlie American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the Lalande 
gold medal of the Paris Academy, the Arago gold medal of the Paris Acad- 
emy and the Janssen gold medal for astronomical researches. He has dis- 
covered sixteen comets, some double stars and many nebulae, and in Sep- 
tember, 1892, discovered the fifth satellite of Jupiter. He resides at Wil- 
liams' Bay, Wis. 

*Charles Reid Barnes, Hanover, '77, was professor of Plant Physi- 
ology and Examiner for Colleges at the University of Chicago, and one of 
the leading botanists of the country. In 1886 he became head of the De- 
partment of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, joining the faculty of 
the University of Chicago in 1898. He was at various times president and 
secretary of the Botanical Society of America, and vice president and 
secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
He was the author of numerous pamphlets and monographs on botany 
and was regarded as one of the foremost authorities on mosses. In con- 
nection with Prof. John M. Coulter, head of the Dapartment of Botany 
at the University of Chicago, he founded the Botanical Gazette in 1875, 
and this journal, now published by the University of Chicago, was edited 
by them until his death, which occurred Feb. 24, 1910, at Chicago. 

Clifford Webster Barnes, California, '89, did not graduate. He went 
to Yale and graduated in 1889, A. B., receiving a B. D. degree in 1892. He 
also studied at the University of Chicago and received an A. M. degree 




JOHN L,. BATES 
Boston '82 




CHARLES F. BEACH 
Central '77 



GRANVILLE WALTER BARR 35 

from it in 1893. In 1893 and 1894 he was a resident worker at the Hull 
House in Chicago. From 1894 to 1897 he was in the active ministry. In 
1897 and 1898 lie studied at Oxford University and 1898 and 1899 at Paris. 
In 1899 and 1900 he was instructor in Sociology at the University of Chi- 
cago. From 1900 to 1905 he was professor of Sociology at and president of 
Illinois College. In 1906 and 1907 he was sent to Europe to investigate the 
subject of moral and religious training in schools. Since 1907 he has been 
chairman of the executive committee of the International Commission on 
Moral Training. He is president of the Illinois Uegislative Voters' League, 
the Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the Committee of Fifteen for the 
suppression of vice. In 1913 he received the degree of LI>. D. from Lake 
Forest. He resides at Lake Forest, 111. 

*George Thomas Barxes, Georgia, '.53, studied law after graduation 
and settled at Augusta, Ga. He was a member of the lower house of the 
Georgia Legislature 1860-6.5, and of the upper house 1868-70. He was also 
a member of the National Democratic Committee from 1876 to 1884. He was 
member of Congress for three years, the 49th, -oOtli and .51st Congress. He 
died at Augusta in 1907. 

*Oi{i.ANDO Mac Hahnks, Midiigan, '.50, received his Master's degree in 
18.54. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 18.52. From 1852 to 
1856 he was prosecuting attorney of Ingham county, Michigan. From 1863 
to 1864 he was a member of the Michigan Senate. In 1875 and 1879 he was 
mayor of the city of Lansing. He was Democratic candidate for governor 
of Michigan in 1878, but was defeated. From 1863 to 1871 he was presi- 
dent of the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, and from 1878 to 1899 
was president of the Lansing National Bank. He was president of the 
Alumni Association of Michigan from 1875 to 1877. He died at Lansing, 
Michigan, in 1899. 

G(raxvii,i.e) Walter Barr, DePauw, '83, is tlie liead of the department 
of public relations of the Mississippi River Power Company, Keokuk, 
Iowa, proprietor of the largest water power in the world. After leaving 
college, he studied medicine and received the degree of M. D. from the 
Jeffereson Medical College in 1884. For a number of years he was pro- 
fessor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons at Keokuk and was editor of the department to which his 
college work related in the Iowa State Medical Journal. He did much 
original research work in drug dynamics, which was recognized as author- 
itative all over the world and received special attention in England, Ger- 
many and Russia. From 1900 to 1902 he was city editor and managing edi- 



36 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

tor of The Gate City of Keokuk, and from 1902 to 1910 was the proprietor 
of the Keokuk Standard. He is the author of a novel, "Shacklett" (1901), 
and of many short stories in leading magazines, and has written many ar- 
ticles on economic subjects. He has been a lecturer on popular science. For 
fifteen years he has been secretary of the Keokuk board of education, and 
is a trustee of the public library. 

William Alexander Barr^ Westminster, '74, did not graduate at 
Westminster, but went to Dartmouth where he obtained his A. B. degree 
in 1876. He graduated at the Union Theological Seminary of New York 
in 1879. He has been rector of Protestant Episcopal churches at Rich- 
mond, Va., from 1897 to 1900; Norfolk, Va., from 1900 to 1907; and 
Lynchburg, Va., from 1907 to 1909. Since 1909 he has been dean of Christ 
Church Cathedral at New Orleans. He was given the degree of D. D. by 
M^'estminster College in 1905. 

William Edwards Barrows^ Jr., Maine, '02, received the degree of 
electrical engineer in 1907. He was assistant professor of Electrical En- 
gineering at the Armour Institute of Technology from 1906 to 1912 and 
since the last mentioned date has been professor of Engineering at the 
University of Maine. He is a member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers, the Illuminating Engineering Society, and the Society for 
the Promotion of Engineering Education. He is the author of "Electrical 
Illuminating Engineering," and "Illumination Calculations*," in "Lectures on 
Illuminating Engineering" delivered at Johns Hopkins in 1911, and 
"Light, Photometry and Illumination." He resides at Orono, Maine. 

Herbert Barry^ Virginia, '88, graduated in law at that University 
and became a lawyer. He was the executive head of the Mystical Seven and 
represented that Fraternity in the negotiations which led to its absorption 
by Beta Theta Pi in 1890. From 1897 to 1913 he was a member of the 
firm of Davies, Stone & Auerbach of New York City, and he is now the 
senior member of the firm of Barry, Wainwright, Thacher & Symmers of 
New York City. He has participated in many important litigations. He 
was captain of Squadron A of the National Guard, State of New York, 
from 1900 to 1908. 

*JoHN Bascom, Williams, '49, graduated from the Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1855 and entered the ministry of the Congregational 
church. He was never active in the ministry, however, but was a pro- 
fessor all of his life. From 1855 to 1874 he was professor of Rhetoric 
at Williams College. From 1874 to 1887 he was president of the University 
of Wisconsin. From 1887 to 1891 he was lecturer on Sociology at Williams 



JOSEPH BARKER BATTKLLE 37 

and from 1891 to 1901 of Political Science at Williams. He was the au- 
thor of a large number of books, including "Political Economy," "Aes- 
thetics," "Philosoph}' of Rhetoric," "Principles of Psychology," "Science, 
Philosophy and Religion," "Philosophy of English Literature," "Philosophy 
of Religions," "Growth and Grades of Intelligence," "Ethics," "Nat- 
ural Theology," "Science of Mind," "Words of Christ," Problems in 
Philosophy" (a recast of Principles of Psychology), "Sociology," "The 
New Theology," "Historical Interpretation of Philosophy," "Social Theory," 
"Evolution and Religion," "Growth of Nationality in the United States," 
"God and His Goodness." He was the recipient of numerous honorary 
degrees, LL. D. from Amherst, Williams and Wisconsin and D. D. from 
Iowa College. He died Oct. 2d, 1911, at Williamstown. <t B K. 

John Lewis Bates, Boston, '82, graduated from the Boston Law School 
in 1885. He has been counsel for many large enterprises and is a director 
of the United States Trust Co., The Columbia Trust Co., The Chelsea Trust 
Co., and many other similar institutions. From 1891 to 1892 he was a 
member of the Boston Common Council, from 1894 to 1899 he was a member 
of the Massachusetts Legislature and was the speaker from 1897 to 1899. 
From 1900 to 1902 he was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts and in 1903 
and 1904 governor of Massachusetts. He is president of the board of 
trustees of Boston LTniversity and resides in Boston. He received the de- 
gree of LL. D. from W^esleyan in 1903. * B K. 

*JosHUA Hall Bates, Cincinnati, '41, graduated at the United States 
Military Academy in 1837. During the Florida war he served as a captain 
in the army. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842 and set- 
tled in Cincinnati. W^hen the war broke out, he offered his services to the 
government and served in the Union army as a brigadier-general until 
1865. He was a member of the Ohio Senate in 1865-66 and again in 1875- 
77. In 1871 he served as presidential elector. He died at Cincinnati in 1908. 

Joseph Barker Battelle, Ohio Wesleyan, '68, for two years after his 
graduation was a tutor at Ohio Wesleyan. He then became superintend- 
ent of public schools at Ironton, Ohio. In 1870 and 1871 he was assistant 
editor of the Toledo Daily Comviercial. From 1871 to 1873 city editor of 
the Toledo Globe. From 1873 to 1879 editor of the Toledo Weekhi Blade 
and Locke's National Mont.hl;/. From 1879 to 1883 he was proprietor and 
publisher of the Toledo Dailif Commercial. From 1883 to 1887 he was 
United States collector of customs at Toledo. He is now retired and resides 
at Los Angeles, Cal. 



3S BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

David Henry Bauslin^ Wittenberg, '76, is professor of Practical The- 
ology in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, which po- 
sition he has occupied since 1896, and is now dean of the Seminary. He 
was for twelve years editor of the Lutheran World and was president of 
the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1905 and 1907. 
For a number of years he was president of the board of directors of Wit- 
tenberg College. He received the degree of D. D. from Wittenberg College 
in 1890. 

William Shirley Bayley^ Johns Hopkins, '83, remained at college 
after his graduation as a Fellow, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1886. 
From 1888 to 1905 he was professor of Geology at Colby College, from 
1907 to 1909 assistant professor of Geology at the University of Illinois, 
between 1909 and 1913 associate professor of Mineralogy and Economic 
Geology at that University, and since 1913 professor of Geology. He is a 
geologist on the United States Geological Survey. Since 1905 lie has been 
business editor of Economic Geology. He is a member of S S and of many 
learned societies, and is a frequent contributor to technical journals. He 
resides at Urbana, 111. 4> B K. 

Howard Raxdolph Bayxe, Richmond, '72, is a well known lawyer of 
New York City. He moved to New York in 1882 and at once began the 
practice of his profession. During the last four or five years he has been a 
member of the New York State Senate and has been entrusted with the 
chairmanship of several of its important committees. He resides on Staten 
Island and has been connected officially or otherwise with almost all of its 
social and industrial enterprises. 

Charles Fisk Beach, Central, '77, graduated at the Columbia Law 
School in 1881. He was a graduate student at the Faculty of Law of the 
University of Paris and the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques. He 
practiced in New York from 1881 to 1895, in London from 1896 to 1900, 
in Paris 1900 to 1902, in St. Paul, Minn., 1902-03, and since then in Paris. 
He is Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, member of the Societe de Legis- 
lation Comparee and of the Comite Juridique International de I'Aviation. 
He was lecturer in the St. Paul College of Law in 1902-03, and in the Uni- 
versity of Paris 1904-06. He was editor of the Railway and Corporation 
Law Journal from 1882 to 1892. He has been a prolific writer of treatises 
on law, including works on "Receivers," "Wills," "Railways," "Private 
Corporations," "Equity Jurisprudence," "Public Corporations," "Equity 
Practice," "Injunctions," "Insurance," "Contracts," "Contributory Negli- 
gence." He is a member of the Authors' Club in London. He resides in 
Paris, where he practices as an international lawyer. 




JACK BEALL 
Texas '90 




JAMES A. BEAVER 
Washington-Jefferson '56 



OBMOND BEATTY 39 

Joseph Warren Beach, Minnesota, '00, received the degree of M. A. 
from Harvard in 1902 and Ph. D. from Harvard in 1907. Since 1907 he 
has been assistant professor of English at the University of Minnesota and 
he resides in MinneapoHs. He is the author of "Sonnets of the Head and 
Heart," "The Comic Spirit in George Meredith." He has written much 
concerning George Meredith and Thomas Hardy and has contributed poems 
to the Atlantic Monthly, the Forum and other journals. He is a member of 
the Modern Language Association of America. * B K. 

JuKius Emery Beal, Michigan, '82, resides at Ann Arbor. He was a 
presidential elector in 1888. In 1893 he was president of the Michigan 
Press Association. Since 1908 he has been a regent of the University of 
Michigan. He was a member of the Michigan Legislature in 1905 and 
1906. Since 1909 he has been a member of the Michigan Public Domain 
Commission, of which he is chairman. He is engaged in many industrial 
enterprises. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Fraternity 
from 1894 to 1897 and published the Fraternity catalogue of 1899. 

Jack Beall, Texas, '90, graduated from the law department of the 
University of Texas and has since practiced at Waxahachie, Texas, where 
he resides. He was a member of the Texas Legislature from 1892 to 1895 
and of the Senate from 1895 to 1900. Since 1903 he has been a member of 

Congress. 

James Helmick Beatty, Ohio Wesleyan, '59, enlisted in the Union army 
and served from 1863 to 1865 as first lieutenant of the Fourth Iowa Bat- 
tery. He practiced law at Lexington, Mo., from 1865 to 1872 at Salt Lake 
City, from 1872 to 1882, and since then, at various places in Idaho. He was 
United State district attorney for Utah in 1882. He was a member of the 
Council of Idaho in 1886-87 and of the Constitutional Convention of Idaho 
in 1889. He was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho from 1889 to 
1891, and United States district judge of Idaho from 1891 to 1907. He re- 
sides in Boise City, Idaho. 

*Ormond Beatty was an honorary member of the Central Chapter. 
He graduated from Centre College in 1835 and took a graduate course at 
Yale the next year. In 1836 he was chosen professor of Natural and 
Physical Science at Centre College, a position he retained until 1847, 
when he became professor of Mathematics, remaining such until 1852, 
when he resumed his original chair, retaining the latter until 1870. From 
1870 to 1888 he was president of Centre College and professor of Meta- 
physics from 1870 to 1890. He was a delegate to the Sessions of the Pan* 



40 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Presbyterian Alliance held at Edinburg in 1870, and Philadelphia in 1880. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from Princeton in 1868. He died at Dan- 
ville in 1890. 

*James Adams Beaver^ Washington & Jefferson, '56, after graduating 
from college studied lavi^ and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1861, at 
the outbreak of the war, he entered the army and rapidly rose to the rank 
of colonel and the further rank of brigadier-general. He lost a leg in Au- 
gust, 1864, at the battle of Ream's Station. Returning home, he resumed 
his law practice in Bellefonte. In 1882 he ran for governor on the Republi- 
can ticket, but was defeated by Robert E. Pattison. In 1887 he was elected 
governor and so remained for the term of four years. Later, from 1896 to 
1914, he was judge of the Superior Court of the state. He always took a 
great interest in education and in the affairs of the Presbyterian church, of 
which he was a well known member. He was a trustee of Washington and 
Jefferson College, of Lincoln University and president of the board of 
trustees in the Pennsylvania State College, and was president of the college 
from 1906 to 1908. He was vice moderator of the Presbyterian General As- 
sembly, 1888 and 1895. In 1910 he was a delegate to the General Missionary 
Conference at Edinburgh. He received the degree of LL. D. from Dickin- 
son and Hanover in 1889 and the University of Edinburgh in 1910. He died 
at Bellefonte, Pa., in 1914. 

Edward Scott Beck, Michigan, '92, is managing editor of the Chicago 
Tribune and resides in Chicago, 111. 

*George Loomis Becker, Michigan, '46, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1849. From 1856 to 1857 he 
was mayor of St. Paul. In 1857 he was a member of the Minnesota State 
Constitutional Convention and from 1858 to 1859 he was a member of 
Congress from Minnesota. In 1859 he was nominated for governor of 
Minnesota, but was defeated. He received a second nomination in 1876, but 
was also defeated. He was a member of the Minnesota Senate from 1868 
to 1872. From 1864 to 1876 he was president of the St. Paul & Pacific 
Railroad Company and from 1881 to 1885 president of the Western Rail- 
road Company. From 1885 to 1904 he was a member of the State Board of 
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners. He died at St. Paul Jan. 6, 1904. 

Robert Henderson Beckham, Cumberland, '91, Texas, '94, is business 
manager of the Carlisle Military Academy, Arlington, Texas. During the 
war with " Spain he was captain and commissary with Wheeler's Cavalry. 
Later he was captain and quartermaster of the transport "Sherman." In 



LE ROY ALFRED BELT 41 

1910 he was adjutant general of Texas and retired as brigadier general 
of the Texas National Guard, in 1911. 

Ezra Keixkr Bell, Wittenberg, '77, graduated from the Theological 
Department of Wittenberg in 1879 and became an English Lutheran clergy- 
man. He was editor of the Lutheran World from 1892 to 1896. He was a 
director of Wittenberg College from 1887 to 1895 and president of the 
board the last two years of his term. He has been pastor of the First I.,uth- 
eran Church at Baltimore since 1899. Since 1904 he has been vice president 
of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Lutheran church. He resides 
at Baltimore, Md. He received the degree of D. D. from Wittenberg Col- 
lege in 1891. 

J(ajies) Caki.eton Bell, Denison, '96, graduated witli an A. B. degree. 
After studying at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig for two years he 
attended Harvard University where he obtained his A. M. degree in 1903 
and Ph. D. in 1901. He was an instructor at several schools for the next 
ten years. He was director of the psychological lalioratory of tlie Brook- 
lyn training school for teachers from 1907 to 1912, and since then has been 
professor and director of the school of the Art of Teaching at the Univer- 
sity of Texas. He resides at Austin, Texas. 

AViLLiAM Thomas Riley Beli,, Virginia, '66, from 1861 to 1865 was 1st 
lieutenant of the 9th Virginia Infantry in the Confederate army. After his 
graduation he became a teacher and editor. He was editor of the Kingston, 
N. C, Journal from 1872 to 1874 and since 1874 has been principal of the 
high school of King's Mountain, N. C. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member 
of tlie Nortli Carolina Senate and from 1876 to 1880 a member of Congress. 

George Wesley Bellows, Ohio State, '05, is an artist and a member 
of the National Academy of Design, being the youngest member ever 
elected to it. He is also an honorary life member of the National Arts Club 
and the American Society of Painters and Sculptors. One of liis pictures, 
"The North River," won the second Halgarten prize of the National Acad- 
emy and was purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for 
its permanent collection. He is also represented by pictures in the collec-- 
tion of the Metropolitan Museum, the Toledo Museum and other similar 
art collections. He is a member of the Societe Internationale des Beaux Arts 
des Lettres. 

*Le Roy Alfred Belt, Ohio Weslevan. '61, received liis degree of M. 
A. in 1864, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
From 1875 to 1879 he was financial secretary of Ohio Wesleyan University 



42 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

and was a trustee of the University from 1878 to 1907. He was pastor of 
a number of prominent churches in Ohio and was for a time presiding 
elder in the Central Ohio Conference. From 1903 to 1906 he was president 
of the Ohio Northern University. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Dickinson in 1883. He died at Kenton, Ohio, in 1907. 

Cleveland Keith Benedict^ Kenyon, '87, became a Protestant Epis- 
copal clergyman and is dean of the Theological department of the Uni- 
versity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. He received the degree of t). D. 
from Kenyon in 1911. $ B K. 

James O'Donnell Bennett^ Michigan, '98, became a newspaper writer 
for different Chicago newspapers. He was correspondent for the Chicago 
Journal during the Spanish-American war. He is now dramatic editor for 
the Chicago Record-Herald. He resides in Chicago. 

*Thomas Warren Bennett, DePauw, '55, graduated in law in 1855, 
not having completed his college course. He began the practice of law at 
Liberty, Ind., and was prosecuting attorney for two years when he was 
elected to the Indiana Senate and served until 1861. He entered the 
Union army as captain in the 15th Indiana Volunteers. In 1862 he be- 
came major of the 36th Indiana Volunteers and the same year colonel 
of the 69th Indiana Volunteers, holding this rank until 1864, when he 
was made a brigadier-general. Returning to Indiana after the war, he 
was a member of the Indiana Senate from 1865 to 1868, and mayor of 
Richmond, Ind., from 1869 to 1871. In 1871 he was appointed governor 
of Idaho, and served until 1875, when he was sent to Congress as a dele- 
gate from Idaho, which was then a territory, and served until 1877, 
when he returned to Richmond, Ind. He was mayor of Richmond from 
1877 to 1881. He died at Richmond Feb. 1st, 1893. 

Bernhard Berenson, Boston, '78, is a resident of Florence, Italy. He 
is one of the best known critics of Italian, and especially of Florentine art, 
and has written many books upon Italian painting and painters; among 
others, "Venetian Painters of the Renaissance," "Lorenzo Lotto," ^n 
essay in constructive art criticism; "Florentine Painters of the 
Renaissance," "Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance," "The Study 
and Criticism of Italian Art," "The North Italian Painters of the Renais- 
sance," "A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend," and a very large 
number of reviews of books relating to Art and ArchfEology in English, 
French, Italian and German, all of which languages he speaks fluently. 




JOHN T. BLODGETT 
Brown '80 




HAROLD S. BOARDMAN 
Maine '95 



GEORGE WASHINGTON FLEMING BIRCH 43 

*Albert Seaton Beruy, Miami, '56, graduated from the Cincinnati 
Law School in 1857. He was county superintendent of Schools in 1859, and 
was elected city attorney of Newport, Ky., in 18G1. He entered the Con- 
federate army as captain of the 5th Kentucliy Infantry and rose to the 
rank of colonel. At the close of the war he returned to Newport and was 
mayor of the city from 1874 to 1880 and 1881 to 1882. He was a member 
of the Kentucky Senate from 1880 to 1888. He was elected to Congress in 

1892, 1894. and 1896. After leaving Congress he became judge of the 
Campbell County Circuit Court. He died Jan. 7, 1908. 

John Riddell Berry, Monmouth, '72, Washington and Jefferson, '72, 
was editor of the Council Bluffs Tribune in 1872, of the Monmouth Re- 
view in 1879; the Atlas in 1880, and the San Diego Union from 1887 to 

1893. He was city clerk of Monmouth, 111., from 1877 to 1879. From 1890 
to 1894 he was collector of the Port of San Diego. During the war with 
Spain he was colonel of the 7th California Infantry, United States Vol- 
unteers. He is a lawyer and resides at Los Angeles, Cal. 

Philander Betts, IIId, Rutgers, '91, received the degree of M. S. in 
1895. In 1903 he received the degree of E. E. from Columbian, now 
George Washington, University. He was for a time superintendent of tlie 
Lakeside Railway Company at Mahonoy Citj^ Pa., and was also for a 
time professor of Electrical Engineering at George Washington LTniver- 
sity. He is now chief engineer of the Public Utility Commission of the 
state of New Jersey. He resides at Montclair, N. J. 

Robert Payxe Biget.ow, Jolins Hopkins, '92, is librarian of the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Teclniology and assistant professor of geology and 
parasitology at that institution. From 1905 to 1908 he was editor of the 
Technology Quarterlj/. 

*George Washington Fleming Birch, Washington & Jefferson, '58, was 
first in his class and then attended the Western Theological Seminary, from 
which he graduated in 1861. He became a Presbyterian minister and was 
pastor of the Third Presbyterian church at Springfield, 111., from 1861 to 
1869, of the Second church, Lexington, Ky., from 1870 to 1873, of the Third 
church, Indianapolis, from 1873 to 1876, and the Bethany church, New York 
City, from 1878 to 1902. In the famous ecclesiastical trial of the Presbyter- 
ian church vs. Charles F. Briggs, Dr. Birch was chairnuin of the prosecuting 
committee and as such conducted the case for the church. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Centre College and LL. D. from the University of 
West Virginia. He died in New York City in 1902. 



44 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Seth Scott Bishop, Beloit, '77, graduated in Medicine from Northwest- 
ern University. He is a surgeon and specialist in otology, rhinology and 
laryngology. He is a professor of the subjects mentioned at the Post Grad- 
uate Medical School and Hospital at Chicago and also at the Jefferson 
Park Medical College. He is a surgeon to the Jefferson Park and Post 
Graduate Hospitals of Chicago. He is one of the edtitors of the New York 
Medical Times and the author of "Diseases of the 'Nose, Throat and Ear," 
the "Ear and its Diseases," and has published several hundred monographs 
in professional journals. He is the inventor of a number of surgical in- 
struments and a member of many professional societies. He resides at 
Evanston, 111. 

*WiLLiAM Bishop^ Hanover, '52, graduated from the Princeton Theolog- 
ical Seminary and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He was 
professor of Greek at Hanover from 1852 to 1857 and president of Highland 
University from 1864 to 1868. He received the degree of D. D. from High- 
land in 1874. He died in 1900 at Salina, Kans. 

William Colemak Bitting, Richmond, '77, graduated from the Crozer 
Theological Seminary in 1880 and entered the ministry of the Baptist 
church. He was pastor at Luraj', Va., from 1881 to 1883, and at the Mt. 
Morris Church, New York City, from 1884 to 1905, and since 1905 at the 
Second Church in St. Louis. He is the author of "Earthly Blooms from 
Heavenly Stems," and "Foundation Truths." He received the degree of 
D. D. from Richmond College in 1893; Howard College in 1893 and Brown 
University in 1910. He has contributed to many magazines and journals. 
He was president of the Baptist Ministers' Home Society of New York 
from 1888 to 1905. He has been a member of the executive committee of 
the Religious Educational Association and of the Federal Council of 
Churches of Christ in America since their organization. Since 1907 he has 
been corresponding secretary of the Northern Baptist Convention. He is a 
member of numerous learned and religious organizations. 

James Buckley Black, DePauw, '62, Indiana, '62, entered the Union 
army as a private in 1861 in the 18th Indiana Volunteers and was succes- 
sively promoted until he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1865. He 
became a lawyer and from 1869 to 1877 was the reporter of the Supreme 
Court of Indiana and editor of 24 volumes of its reports. He was the au- 
thor of "Black's Indiana Digest." From 1879 to 1882 he was a professor in 
the Central Law School of Indiana. From 1882 to 1885 he was a member 
of the Indiana Supreme Court Commission. From 1897 to 1907 he was a 




WM. E. BORAH 
Kansas '89 




HENRY S. BOUTELL, 
Northwestern '74 



WILSOX WILBERFORCE BLAKE 45 

judge of the Appellate Court of Indiana. He resides at Indianapolis. He 
was the poet of the Fraternity convention of 1866 and president of the 
convention of 1870. He is the author of a number of the Fraternity songs. 

James W. Blackburn, Central, '54, graduated from the law school of 
Transylvania University in 1855, and became a lawyer. At the outbreak of 
the war he enlisted in the Confederate army and served as a captain of 
Infantry until 1865. From 1875 to 1877 and from 1878 to 1880 he was a 
member of the State Senate of Kentucky, and from 1880 to 1883, secretary 
of state of Kentucky. He was a delegate to the Kentucky Constitutional 
Convention of 1890. He resides at Midway, Ky. 

Eliot Blackwelder, Chicago, '01, is a professor of Geology at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin. For some years he has been a geologist on the U. S. 
Geological Survey. He is the author of "Regional Geology of the United 
States," and the joint author of "Blackwelder and Barrows' Elements of 
Geology." 

Paul Blackwelder, Chicago, '00, did not graduate but went to Har- 
vard where he obtained an A. B. degree in 1900. He was principal of the 
Laclede and Washington grammar schools of St. I^ouis from 1902 to 1905. 
Since 1905 he has been assistant librarian of the St. Louis public library. 
He was president of the Missouri Library Association during 1912. He 
resides in St. Louis. 

•Walter Blair, Hampden-Sidney, '55, received the degree of A. M. 
from the University of Virginia in 1857. From 1859 to 1861 he attended the 
Universities of Berlin and Breslau in Germany in the study of oriental lan- 
guages. In 1862 he entered the Conferedate army as sergeant-major of the 
Richmond Howitzers in Cabell's artillery and served until the end of the 
war. From 1865 to 1896 he was professor of the Latin I>anguage and Litera- 
ture at Hampden-Sidney and from 1896 to 1909 emeritus professor in the 
same subject. He received the degree of LL. D. from Washington-Lee Uni- 
versity in 1883. He was the author of the "Pronunciation of "Latin." He 
died at Richmond, Va., in 1909. 

AV^iLsox WiLBERFORCE Blake, Moumouth, '72, was city editor of the 
Burlington Haivkeye from 1872 to 1874 and editor of the Burlington Ga- 
zette from 1874 to 1879. From 1887 to 1898 he was editor of the Two Re- 
publics in the City of Mexico. He is the author of a "Catalogue of the 
National Museum of Mexico," "The Cross, Ancient and Modern," "The 
Antiquities of Mexico," "A Guide to Mexico," etc. He resides in the City 
of Mexico, where he is devoted to the study of the archaeology of Mexico, 
on whicii subject he has written many monographs. 



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Ernest Blaker, Kansas, '93, received a Ph. D. degree from Cornell in 
1901. Since 1905 he has been assistant professor of Physics at Cornell. He 
is commissioner of education of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the author of "Ex- 
periments in Physics," and the reviser of Nichol's Laboratory Manual of 
Physics and Applied Electricity. S S, T A. 

*JosEPH Philip Blanton. Hampden-Sidney, '69, was principal of the 
high school at Troy, Mo., from 1874 to 1878; superintendent of schools at 
Mexico, Mo., from 1878 to 1882; president of the Missouri State Normal 
School from 1882 to 1891, and professor of the Theory and Practice of 
Teaching and dean of the Normal Department of the University of Mis- 
souri from 1891 to 1905, and president of the University of Idaho from 
1905 to 1907. He died in 1909 at Jefferson City, Mo. During the last year 
of the war he was a private in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry in the Confederate 
army. 

*JoHiT Taggaet Blodgett, Brown, '80, after graduation studied law 
and was admitted to the bar in Providence, R. I., in 1883. In 1890 he was 
appointed United States Commissioner for Rhode Island and in 1892 
United States Commissioner of Elections. He was first chairman of the 
Board of Canvassers and Registration of the city of Providence, and was 
instrumental in securing the enactment of the establishment of such 
board. From 1898 to 1900 he was a member of the Rhode Island Legisla- 
ture. In 1900 he became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
Rhode Island, a position which he held until his death, which occurred 
March 4, 1912. In 1907 he was chairman of the State Commission of Rhode 
Island to the Jamestown exposition. $ B K. 

*RiCHARD Whiting Blue, Washington & Jefferson, '64, did not grad- 
uate, but left college to enter the Union army, where he was a lieutenant 
in the 3rd West Virginia Infantry, and then captain of the 6th West Vir- 
ginia Cavalry. At the close of the war he moved to Kansas and for a time 
was principal of a school at Pleasanton. In 1876 he was elected probate 
judge and afterwards to the State Senate. From 1894 to 1898 he was a 
member of Congress. He died at Bartlesville, Okla., Jan. 28, 1907. 

Harold Sherburne Boardman, Maine, '95, was born at Bangor, Maine, 
March 31st, 1874. He graduated from Maine State College as a bachelor of 
civil engineering in 1895 and was a graduate student at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology during the next college year. He received the de- 
gree of civil engineer from the University of Maine in 1898. From Sep- 
tember, 1896, to June, 1899, he was tutor in drawing at the University of 




WILLIAM F. BOYD 
Ohio '66 




DAVID J. BREWER 
Wesltyan '55 



CrF.ORaE MELVILLE HOLLIXd 47 

Maine. For the next two years lie was a draftsman for the Union Hridge 
Company at Athens, Pa., and the American Bridge Company at Pencoyd, 
Pa. From 1901 to 1903 he was instructor in civil engineering and during 
1903 and 1904 he was associate professor in charge of the department of 
civil engineering at the University of Maine. From June to September, 
1903, he was in charge of surveys for the location of the Sourdanahunk and 
Chesuncook dams on the Penobscot River for the Great Northern Paper 
Company, and from June to October, 1904, was in charge of a survey of the 
Magalloway Valley along the head waters of the .\ndroscoggin River. From 
June, 190.5, to June, 1911, he was in charge of the hydrographic field of op- 
erations of the United States Geological Survey in coiuiection with the 
Maine Survey Commission and the Maine Water Storage Com- 
mission. During the past two years he has been a member of 
the civil engineering firm of Boardnian & Bean and was in gen- 
eral practice as a civil engineer for seven years before that time in addition 
to his professional work. In June, 1904, he was appointed professor of civil 
engineering at the University of Maine and in June, 1910, was made dean 
of the College of Technology at that institution, which position he now holds. 
T B n, "I- K *. 

Wii.iis Hexky Bocock, Hanijideu-Sidney, '84, graduated from the 
University of Virginia in 188.5. He also attended the University of Berlin 
in 1892 and 1893. He was iirofessor of Greek at Hainpdeii-Sidney from ]88(j 
to 1889, aiul was professor of .\ncient Languages from 1889 to 1894 at 
the I'niversity of Georgia aiul has been professor of Greek at the Uni- 
versity of Georgia since 1894, and since 1910 has been dean of the gradu- 
ate school. He received the degree of M. .\. from Davidson college in 1889 
and IJi. D. from the University of Georgia in 1910 (the second U.. D. 
conferred l)y the board of trustees of that University upon a memiier of 
the faculty in 109 years). <I> B K. 

Gkokoi: Mki.vii.i.i: Boi.i.ixg, Johns Hopkins, '92, is Henry E. John- 
ston, Jr., Scholar in the Johns Hopkins University. He took the degree 
of A. B. at Loyola College in Baltimore in 1891; was a Fellow in Greek 
at Johns Hopkins in 1893-4; Fellow by courtesy in 1894-8, and was granted 
his Doctor's Degree in ]89(). He entered the service of the Catholic Uni- 
versity of .America (Washington, D. C.) in 1895, where he held various 
positions, becoming in 1906 professor of the Greek Language and Litera- 
ture and associate professor of vSanskrit and Comparative Philology and 
also general secretary of that University. These positions he resigned in 
1912 in order to apply for his present position. He is a member of the 



48 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

American Oriental Society, American Philological Association, and the 
American Archaeological Institute. He was the senior editor in the pub- 
lication of the Parisistas of the Atharvaveda, to the printing of which the 
Royal Academy of Prussia devoted the Bopp Stipendium, and the Royal 
Academy of Bavaria, the income of the Hardy Stiftung. He resides at 
Baltimore, Md. ^ B K. 

WiNSTEAD Paine Boxe, Trinity, '83, Cumberland, '86, graduated from 
the Union Theological Seminary in 1888 and entered the ministry of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian church. From 1894 to 1909 he was professor of 
New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Cumberland University and librar- 
ian of the University. Since 1909 he has been president of the University. 
From 1896 to 1905 he was editor of the Sunday School lessons for the Cum- 
berland Presbyterian chiircli. He resides at Lebanon, Tenn. 

*JoiiN Lee Booxe^ Ohio Wesleyan, '63, enlisted in the 20th Ohio Vol- 
unteers in 1862 and did not graduate. He studied law while in the army 
and afterwards at Salem, Oregon, and was admitted to the bar at the 
latter place. He was a patent specialist. He was a member of the Cali- 
fornia State Senate from 1884 to 1888. He died at San Francisco in 1904. 
Before attending Ohio Wesleyan he graduated at Willi amette University 
in 1860 with the degree of A. B. 

*JoHN RowAx Boone, Indiana, '64, left college in 1862 and enlisted in 
the 29th Kentucky Volunteers in the Union army and served until 1866, 
retiring as a colonel. He then engaged in the practice of law at I^ouis- 
ville, Ky. He died at Louisville in 1884. 

Henry Judson Bootii^ Denison, '73, completed his college course at 
Amherst. He studied law and has practiced at Columbus, Ohio. He was a 
member of the Ohio lyCgislature from 1878 to 1880. He was professor of 
medical jurisprudence at the Columbus Medical College from 1885 to 1890. 
He was a trustee of Oliio State University from 1884 to 1889, and was 
president of the Ohio State Bar Association in 1903 and 1904. He re- 
sides at Columbus. 

* Newton Booth, DePauw, '46, was born at Salem, Ind., Dec. 25, 
182.5. After graduation he studied law at Terre Haute, Ind., and was 
admitted to the bar in 1850. He went to California in 18.52 where he tem- 
porarily abandoned his profession and engaged in mercantile pursuits at 
Sacramento. He returned to Terre Haute in 1857 and practiced law 
there until 1860, when he again went to California. He was elected to 
the State Senate in California in 1863 and served one year. He was 




THOMAS B. BRONSON 

Michigan '81 




OL,IN R. BROUSE 
DePauw '66 



WILLIS BOUGHTON 49 

elected governor of California in 1871 and served until March, 1874, 
when he resigned, having been elected to the United State Senate, and 
took his seat March 9, 1875, serving until March 3, 1881. He died at 
Sacramento, Cal., July 14, 1892. He received the degree of LL. D. in 

1872. 

William Edgar Borah, Kansas, '89, was admitted to the bar in Kan- 
sas, but almost immediately moved to Boise, Idaho, where he began the 
practice of law. He was elected United States Senator from Idaho for the 
term of 1907-1913 and was re-elected for the succeeding term. He is a 
member of the Republican National Committee. 

William Alciphrox Boring, Columbia, '89, after leaving Columbia 
took a course of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and became an 
architect. From 1883 to 1886 he practiced his profession in Los Angeles. 
Since 1890 he has been in practice in New York City, being the senior mem- 
ber of the firm of Boring & Tilton. He has been the architect of many pub- 
lic buildings, among them being the U. S. Immigrant Station at Ellis Is- 
land and the ten buildings of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, 
Md. He is president of the Architectural League of New York. 

Lewis Crenshaw Bosher, Richmond, '80, left college without obtaining 
a degree and began the study of medicine at the Medical College of Vir- 
ginia where he graduated in 1883. He took post-graduate work in New 
York City. He has been professor of Surgery in the Medical College of 
Virginia since 1896; he is also surgeon to the Memorial hospital at Rich- 
mond. He is a member of several medical associations. He resides at 
Richmond, Va. 

*Henry Buckner Boude, Central, '57, graduated at the Theological 
Seminary of the Presbyterian church at Danville in 1860. During 1861 and 
1862 he was captain of the 7th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry in the Con- 
federate army, and a chaplain in the same regiment until 1865. He then en- 
tered the active ministry of the Presbyterian church and was pastor of 
different churches in Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas. From 1878 to 1881 
he was president of Austin College, Texas. He then resumed a position in 
the active ministry of the Presbyterian church at Pleasant Hill, Mo, where 
he resided until his death in 1912. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Arkansas College in 1877. 

Willis Boughton, Michigan, '81, adopted teaching as a profession. 
From 1889 to 1891 he was professor of English Literature and History at 
Ohio University and of Rhetoric and English Literature from 1892 to 



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1899. He was lecturer on English at the University of Pennsylvania in 
1891-1892. He has been teacher of English at Erasmus Hall high school, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., since 1899. He was a lecturer at Adelphi College from 
1904, to 1907. He has been one of the lecturers in the New York Public 
System since 1903. He is president of the Department of Philology and 
lecturer on English at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; is 
lecturer on English in the New York University, Extra-Mural Division, 
and is lecturer under the auspices of the Brooklyn Teachers' Association. 
He is the author of "Mythology in Art," "History of Ancient Peoples," 
"Chronicles of Erasmus Hall Academy," "Ode to Learning," "English Lit- 
erature in Outline," "American Literature in Outline," and many essays 
and poems. He was at one time editor of the Journal of Pedagogy. He 
has also edited a number of English classics for school use. He received 
the degree of A. M. from Dickinson in 1891, Ph. D. from Ohio University 
in 1900, and a "higher diploma'' from Teachers' College, Columbia Uni- 
versity, in 1902. He was the poet of the Fraternity convention of 1890 
and is the author of a number of the Fraternity's songs. He resides in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Henry Sherman Bouteli-, Northwestern, '74, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1879. From 1884 to 1886 he was a member of the 
Illinois Legislature. From 1897 to 1909 he was a member of Congress. He 
was then appointed United States minister to Portugal and afterwards to 
Switzerland. His permanent residence is in Chicago. <!> B K. 

Charles Brasee Boving, Westminster, '91, attended the McCormick 
Theological Seminary in Chicago from 1891 to 1893 and graduated at the 
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1895 and entered the ministry of the 
Presbyterian church. He was pastor of a church at Lamar, Mo., from 1893 
to 1898 at Webb City, Mo., from 1899 to 1904, and at Hannibal, Mo., from 
1905 to 1911. Since 1911 he has been president of Westminster College. He 
was president of the Missouri Christian Endeavor Societies in 1907-08. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Westminster in 1909. He resides at 
Fulton, Mo. 

Andrew Hunter Boyd, Washington and Lee, '68, attended the Uni- 
versity of Virginia in 1868-69, graduated in law from Washington and Lee 
in 1870, and began the practice of law at Cumberland, Md. He was district 
attorney for Allegheny County from 1876 to 1880, and was attorney for 
the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. from 1878 to 1898. From 1893 to 1908 he was 
chief judge of the 4th Judicial Circuit of Maryland and ex-officio associate 
judge of the Court of Appeals. In 1907 and 1908 he was appointed chief 




JAMES T. BROWN 
Cornell "76 




NORRIS BROWN 

Iowa '83 



WILLIAM FLETCHER BOYD 51 

judge of the Court of Appeals. He resides at Cumberland, Md. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from the University of Maryland in 1909. 

David Ross Boyd, Wooster, '78, received the degree of Ph. D. in 1900. 
In 1878 and 1879 he was principal of schools at Bellevue, Ohio; in 1879 and 
1880 he was principal of the high school at Van Wert, Ohio. From 1880 to 
1888 he was superintendent of schools at the same place. From 1888 to 

1892 he was superintendent of Schools at Arkansas City, Kan. From 1892 
to 1908 he was president of the University of Oklahoma, and was chairman 
of the Oklahoma Board of Education during that period. From 1908 to 
1912 he was superintendent of education of the Presbyterian Board of 
Home Hissions. Since July 1, 1912, he has been president of the University 
of New Mexico. He resides at Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Hugh Boyd, Ohio, '59, after his graduation, was a tutor at Ohio Univer- 
sity and then for a year professor of Languages at Shelbyville, Tenn. At 
the outbreak of the war he moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, and was superin- 
tendent of public schools until 1867. In the meantime he entered the min- 
istry of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1872 he was appointed pro- 
fessor of Ancient Languages at Cornell College, a position he retained until 
1911, when he retired. He received the degree of D. D. from Ohio in 1883. 
He resides at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. 

James Harrikgtox Boyd, Wooster, '86, left college before graduation 
and graduated at Princeton. During 1886-87 he held the mathematical 
Fellowship at Princeton. From 1888 to 1890 he was professor of Math- 
ematics in Macalester College. From 1890 to 1893 he was a student at 
Gettingen. In 1892 he received the degree of Sc. D- from Princeton. From 

1893 to 1895 he was tutor in Mathematics, and from 1895 to 1902 
was instructor of Mathematics in the University of Chicago. He 
attended the Harvard I>aw School in 1902-03 and was admitted to the bar 
and began the practice of law in Toledo. He was in 1910 appointed 
chairman of the Employers Liability Commission of Ohio and drafted the 
legislation which was the result of that commission. He is the author of 
"Boyd's Collegiate Algebra" and "Compensation for Injuries to Work- 
men Under Modern Industrial Statutes," and of a translation of the "Geo- 
metric Analytique" of Briot and Bouquet. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Academy of Political and Social Science. 

*WiLLiAM Fi.KTCTiER BoYD, Ohio, '66, graduated from the Cincinnati 
Law School in 1869 and practiced law at Cincinnati until his death, which 
occurred in 1911. He was a specialist in insurance law. From 1905 to 1909 



52 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

he was a member of the Board of Public Safety of Cincinnati. For a 
number of years he was one of the trustees of Ohio University. He was a 
member of the board of directors of the Fraternity from 1879 to 1892 and 
secretary of the board from 1878 to 1882. He was a member of the board 
of trustees of the Fraternity in 1892. 

Albert Augustus Boyden, Knox, '97, graduated from Harvard in 
1898, and became associated with McClure's Magazine, of which he was the 
managing editor from 1903 to 1906. Since that time he has been managing 
editor of the American Magazine and secretary of the Phillips Publishing 
Co. He resides in New York. 

Samuel Gill Boyle^ Central, '81, Johns Hopkins, '81, became a jour- 
nalist. From 1882 to 1888 he was editor of the Kentucky Advocate and 
from 1888 to 1899 of the Kentucky Stock Farm. Since 1899 he has been 
secretary and treasurer of the Louisville Railway Company. He resides at 
Louisville, Ky. 

*D?WiTT Bristol Brace, Boston, '81, from 1881 to 1883 was a special 
student in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 
from 1883 to 1885 was a student of Physics at Johns Hopkins and at the 
University of Berlin and received his Ph. D. degree from the last men- 
tioned institution in 1885. From 1887 to 1888 he was assistant professor 
of Physics at the University of Michigan and from 1888 to the time of his 
death in 1905, was professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska. He 
was a fellow and vice president of the American Association for the ad- 
vancement of Science and was a member of the council of the American 
Physical Society. He was the author of a work on the "Laws of Radiation 
and Absorption." 

George Henry Bradford, Denver, '98, graduated at Missouri Wesleyan 
in 1897 and from the Iliff School of Theology in 1899 and entered the 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He served as pastor of 
churches at St. Joseph, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., and since 1905 has 
been chancellor or president of Epworth University, Oklahoma City, 
Okla. He is a member of the General Board of Education of the Metho- 
dist church. He received the degree of D. D. from Carrollton College in 
1900. 

Emmett Forest Branch, Indiana, '96, studied law and practiced at 
Martinsville, Ind., where he resides. He was a member of the legislature 
of Indiana from 1903 to 1908 and was speaker in 1907 and 1908. 



SOLOMON PORTER BROCK IV AY S3 

Thomas Pettus Braxcii, Vanderbilt, '86, is professor of Civil En- 
gineering at the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. 

William Charles Braniiaji, Vanderbilt, '87, graduated with the de- 
gree of B. A. He began teaching and was an assistant at Vanderbilt 
University for a year. He was a teacher at the University School of 
Nashville from 1888 to 1894. He was an instructor at Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity from 1894 to 1897. He was the founder and co-principal of the Bran- 
ham and Hughes school in 1897, and is still occupying that position. He 
resides at Spring Hill, Tenn. <1> B K. 

*David JosiAir Bhewer, Wesleyan, '56, left college before graduation 
and graduated at Yale. He graduated from the All)any law school in 1858 
and began the practice of law at Leavenworth, Kan., in 1859. In 1863 and 
1864 he was a judge of the Probate and Criminal Court at Leavenworth, 
from 1865 to 1869 a judge of the District Court, and in 1869 and 1870 at- 
torney for Leavenworth county. From 1870 to 1884 he was a justice of the 
Supreme Court of Kansas, from 1884 to 1889 United States Circuit Judge 
for the District of Kansas and from 1889 to the time of his death 
in 1910 a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Iowa in 1884, Washburn in 1888, Yale in 
1891, Wisconsin in 1900, Wesleyan in 1901, Vermont in 1904 and Bowdoin 
in 1905. He was a member of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission in 1896 
and of the British-Venezuelan Arbitration Tribunal in 1889. He was pres- 
ident of the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists held at St. Louis 
in 1901-. He was tlie author of a large number of essays, among others, "The 
Pew to the Pulpit," "The 20th Century from Another Viewpoint," "Amer- 
ican Citizenship," and ''The United States a Christian Nation." 

Edwin Dysox Bhicker, Pennsylvania State, '96, graduated at the 
United States Military Academy in 1898. He served in the Cuban cam- 
paign with the army at Santiago and in tlie Philippines from 1899 to 1901. 
Since that date be has been connected with the Ordnance Department, 
engaged in the design and manufacture of ordnance material. He now 
iiolds the rank of major. 

*WiLLiAM Hugh Brinker, Missouri, 75, studied law and removed 
from Warrensburg, Mo., to New Mexico. From 1885 to 1889 he was a 
justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. In 1890 he moved to Se- 
attle, Washington. From 1893 to 1897 he was United States district at- 
torney for Washington. He died at Seattle in 1907. 

SoLOMOn Porter Brockway, Michigan, '61, entered the Union army 
as a second lieutenant of infantry in 1862 and was gradually promoted 



S4 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

until he became lieutenant colonel of the 9th Michigan cavalry in 1864. 
After the war he moved to Staunton, Va., and for many years was secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Gale Manufacturing Company. He resides at 
Staunton, Va. 

Thomas Bertrand Broxsox, Michigan, '81, has been engaged in 
teaching ever since his graduation. He studied at Berlin, Paris and Rome 
part of the time for several years. Since 1892 he has been professor of 
Modern Languages at the Lawrenceville, N. J., school. He was a mem- 
ber of the Conference on Uniform Entrance Requirements for Colleges in 
1896 and was one of the examiners for the college entrance examining 
board in 1901, 1902 and 1903. He is the author of "Colloquial German," 
"Everyday French," and has edited many French and Germati books for 
school and college use. He resides at Lawrenceville, N. J. "S" B K. 

*Hekry Arnold Brooks, Dartmouth, '75, after graduation studied at 
Harvard and Yale and at various institutions in Germany. He became a 
civil engineer and from 1896 to 1911 was division engineer of the Texas & 
Pacific R. R. He resided at Hampton, Texas, and died in 1911. 

John Pascal Brooks, Dartmouth, '85, from 1885 to 1907 was professor 
of Civil Engineering at the State College of Kentucky. Since 1907 he has 
been director (president) of the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of 
Technology at Potsdam, N. Y. He is the author of "A Handbook for 
Surveyors" and "A Handbook on Street Railroad Location." 

Charles Hillman Brough, Johns Hopkins, '96, prior to attending 
Johns Hopkins, graduated at Mississippi College in 1894. He graduated 
from the law department of the University of Mississippi in 1902. From 
1896 to 1901 he was professor of History and Economics at Mississippi 
College; during 1902-03 he was professor of Economics and Philosophy at 
Hillman College. Since 1904 he has been professor of Economics and Soci- 
ology at the University of Arkansas. He is chairman of the Commission 
of Southern University Professors for the study of race problems, and 
president of the Arkansas State Teachers' Association. He is the author 
of "Irrigation in Utah," "Taxation in Mississippi" and "Political Probr 
lems of the Present." He is a member of the Historical Societies of Ar- 
kansas and Mississippi, the American Academy of Social and Political 
Science, the American Economic Society and the American Political Sci- 
ence Association. He resides at Fayetteville, Ark. 

Olin Robert Brouse, DePauw, '66, is a specialist in Sunday School 
work and an authority upon the subject. He resides at Rockford, 111. 




WEBSTER E. BROWN 
Wisconsin '74 




HENRY A. BUCHTEL, 
DePauw '72 



FREDERICK THOMAS BROWN 55 

In 1868 he received the degree of LL. B. from the Indianapolis Law Col- 
lege and in 1869 the degree of A. M. from DePauw. He began the prac- 
tice of law in Chicago. In 1877 he published the "Medical Laws of Illi- 
nois." In 1878 he became editor of the Golden Censer, continuing until 
1896, since that time devoting liimself exclusively to Sunday School work. 
He was president of the Illinois Sunday School Convention of 1882 and 1883, 
and a delegate to the first World's Sunday School Convention at London in 
1889. He served in the Union army as a private in the 54th and 132nd 
Indiana Volunteers. In 187.5 and 1876 he was editor of the Beta Theta Pi 
and from 1877 to 1879 treasurer of the Fraternity, and a member of the 
board of directors from 1879 to 1884. 

Arthur Browx, Jr., California, "96, graduated witii tlie degree of 
B. S. in Civil Engineering. He graduated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts at 
Paris in 1901 and was awarded the Diplome des Archtectes par le Gouv- 
ernement Francais in the same year. He began to practice in Washington, 
D. C, but removed to San Francisco in 1904 where he is a member of the 
firm of Bakewell & Brown. This firm are tiie architects of the Berkeley 
city hall (first prize and execution), also the city liall of San Francisco 
(first prize and execution), besides other important buildings. He is a 
member of numerous societies and clubs and resides at the LTniversity 
Club of San Francisco. 

•Bexjamix Gratz Browx (shortened usually to "B. Gratz Brown"). 
Transylvania, '46, went to Yale where he took his second degree of A. B. 
in 1847. He studied law at I^ouisville, Ky., and practiced at St. I^ouis, 
Mo. He was a member of the state House of Representatives from 1852 
to 1858. He was one of the founders of the Missouri Democrat and its 
editor from 18.54 to 1839. He took an active part in preventing the seces- 
sion of Missouri in 1861. He entered the Union army and served during 
the war, except for the time he was in the Senate. He rose from a private 
to be in succession captain, colonel and brigadier-general. He was elected 
United States Senator from Missouri as a Republican in the place of W. 
P. Johnson, who was expelled in 1862, serving from December 14, 1863, 
until March 4, 1867. He was elected governor of Missouri in 1870 and 
served until 1872 when he was nominated for vice president on the Greeley 
ticket, and after Mr. Greeley's death received 18 votes for president. 
He died at St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 13th, 1885. He was president of the fra- 
ternity convention of 1885. 

*Fhedehick Thomas Brown, Princeton, '45, graduated from the Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary in 1847 and in 1848 from the Theological Sem- 



56 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

inary at Geneva, Switzerland, and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
church. He was pastor of churches at Dayton, Ohio, Madison, Ind., Cleve- 
land, Ohio, Chicago, 111., St. Paul, Minn., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and in 
1881 retired and resided at Manasquan, N. J., until his death, which oc- 
curred January 11, 1893. He was chaplain of the 7th Regiment of Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry in the Northern army. He was very prominent in the 
Presbyterian denomination. He received the degree of D. D. from La- 
fayette College in 1864. and for some years was editor of the Illustrated 
Christian Weekly. He was a voluminous contributor to the different re- 
ligious journals and was the author of "Letters to Young Christians," 
"Inspiration," and numerous published sermons. 

*HARDiJir BkowNj Cumberland, '56, became a minister of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. From 1871 to 1881 he was professor of Ancient Lan- 
guages at the Alabama Normal College, Florence, Ala., and from 1881 to 
1888 its president. He died in 1888. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Warren College in 1876. 

*HuBERT William Brown, Michigan, '79, graduated from the Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1883 and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
church, serving as a missionary in Mexico. From 1884 to 1896 he was pro- 
fessor of Theology and Philosophy at the Presbyterian Seminary at Tlalpan. 
Mexico, and at the same time was editor of a mission paper entitled 
"El Faro." He was the author of a translation into Spanish of Dr. George 
P. Fisher's "History of the Reformation." He died in the City of Mexico 
in 1906. 

J(ames) Staxley Browx, Denison, '89, graduated with the degree of 
A. B. He began teaching. He was principal of the Joliet City High 
School from 1893 to 1899. He has been superintendent and principal of the 
Joliet Township High School since 1899. He is a member of the Illinois 
State Board of Education, and chairman of the Board of the National Ed- 
ucation Association. Dennison University gave him the degree of LL. D. 
in 1910. He resides at Joliet, 111. 

*James Stephen Brown, Central, '52, after his graduation became 
professor of Natural Science at Bethel College, a position which he held 
for three years. In the meantime he studied law and was admitted to the 
bar and practiced at Paris, Tenn. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted 
in the Confederate army and served for four years, becoming major of the 
46th Tennessee Infantry. He was a member of the Tennessee Constitu- 
tional convention of 1870. He died at Paris, Tenn., JiUy 5, 1870. 




EUGENE J. BUFFINGTON 
Vanderbilt '85 




WILLIAM P. BURRIS 
DePauw '91 



LYTLE BROWN 57 

James Taylor Brown, Cornell, '76, after graduation, engaged in busi- 
ness with his father, subsequently succeeding him in business. For a num- 
ber of years he was with the American Lucol Company of New York City, 
and subsequently was in the employ of the New York Fire Insurance Ex- 
change, resigning in 1910. Since 1893 he has been business manager of 
The Beta Theta Pi and since 1905 Keeper of the Rolls. In association with 
William R. Baird, he edited and published the 1905 Catalogue of the fra- 
ternity. Since 1910 he has devoted his entire time to the work of the fra- 
ternity and in 1911 edited and published the eighth edition of the fraternity 
catalog. He has also compiled and published the lists of the New York 
Alumni and has served as a governor of the Beta Theta Pi Club of New 
York. He resides in New York City. 

*Joiix YouxG Browx, Central, '.55, was born in Hardin County, Ky.. 
June 28, 1835. In 1855 he graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., 
studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He was elected a repre- 
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth Congress, but by reason of 
not having attained the age required by the constitution of the United 
States, did not take his seat until the second session. In 1860 he was a 
member of the national Douglas committee. He was again elected to the 
Fortieth Congress as a Democrat, but the House of Representatives de- 
clared his seat vacant on account of alleged disloyalty. He was re-elected 
to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses and served out his full 
terms. He was governor of Kentucky from 1891 to 1895. He died in 1904. 

Lucius Polk Brown^, Virginia, '89, engaged in farming from 1890 to 
1893. He then became an analytical chemist. Since 1908 he has been 
president of the Brown Laboratories of Nashville, and during that same 
time he has been food and drugs commissioner for the State of Tennessee. 
He is a director in several corporations and a member of some important 
associations. He resides at Nashville, Tenn. 

Lytle Browx, Vanderbilt, '93, graduated at Vanderbilt with the de- 
gree of B. E. in 1893 and C. E. in 1894 and held the fellowship in engineer- 
ing at Vanderbilt. He entered the United States Military Academy and 
graduated number four in the class of 1898 and was assigned to the En- 
gineer Corps of the army. He served in the campaign against Santiago as 
second lieutenant. He was stationed at Savannah in 1898-99 in charge of 
seasoast fortifications. He was stationed at the United States Engineer 
School of Application in 1899-90. He served in the Philippines, 1900-02. He 
was instructor in Mathematics at the United States Military Academy from 
1903 to 1904 and from 1904 to 1907 was instructor of Civil and Military En- 



58 ■ BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

gineering and assistant professor of these subjects. He was promoted to be 
captain of the Corps of Engineers in 1904 and was in command of a com- 
pany of engineers during 1907-08. From 1908 to 1911 he was United States 
district engineer in charge of public work on the Ohio, Greene and Wabash 
Rivers. He was promoted to be major in 1911. He was in command of the 
second brigade of engineers at Fort Leavenworth in 1911-12, and at Texas 
City, Texas, 1913-14, and as chief engineer of the Second Division of the 
army. He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

NoRRis Brown, Iowa, '83, received his M. A. degree in 1885 and began 
the practice of law in Nebraska. He was county attorney of Buffalo 
county, Nebraska, from 1892 to 1896, deputy attorney general of Nebraska 
from 1900 to 1904 and attorney general from 1904 to 1906. He was United 
States Senator from Nebraska from 1907 to 1913. He resides at Omaha, 
Neb. 

Philip Edwin Brown, Wisconsin, '78, graduated at the Albany Law 
School in 1881. From 1891 to 1910 he was district judge of the 13th 
Minnesota District and since 1911 has been a justice of the Supreme 
Court of Minnesota. He resides at Luverne, Minn. 

Webster Everett Brown, Wisconsin, '74, prepared for college at Law- 
rence University. After graduation he engaged in the lumber business at 
Stevens Point in 1875 and moved to Rhinelander in the fall of 1882 and is 
still in the lumber business. He was chairman of the county board six 
years, mayor of Rhinelander two years, and member of Congress from 1901 
to 1907. 

*Wili,iam: Adolphus Brown, DePauw, '72, during the war served as 
an adjutant in the 71st Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the Union army and 
later in the 6th Indiana Cavalry. From 1884 to 1892 he was United States 
consul general at San Juan Del Norte, Nicaragua. He died at Indianap- 
olis in 1906. 

Jesse Culley Bruce, Washington-Jefferson, '72, is a Presbyterian 
clergyman residing at Crafton, Pa. He graduated with first honor and 
attended the Western Theological Seminary, graduating in 1876. He was 
principal of the Lindsley Institute at Wheeling for two years and then 
served as pastor of Presbyterian churches at Oak Dale, Pa., Franklin, Pa., 
Peoria, 111., and Crafton, Pa. He is president of the board of directors of 
the Western Theological Seminary, one of the trustees of Washington and 
Jefferson College, president of the Presbyterian Social Union at Pitts- 
burgh, a member of the Permanent Judicial Commission of the General 



HENRY AUGUSTUS BUCHTEL 59 

Assembly of the Presbyterian church, a trustee of the Presbytery of Pitts- 
burgh and the author of numerous works on theological subjects. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. in 1890. 

*Anson Brunson, Knox '56, Michigan, '57, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar and moved to Los Angeles, Cal. He was a specialist in 
railroad law and from 1881 to 1895 was the California solicitor for the 
Santa Fe Railroad, except during four years, when he was judge of the Cir- 
cuit Court of the 17th District of California. He died at San Bernardino. 
Cal., Oct. 8, 1895. 

William McKendree Bryant, Ohio Wesleyan, '69, graduated with the 
degree of B. A. He was in the civil war, being a private in 1861-2; he was 
adjutant of the 34th Iowa Infantry in 1862 to 1864, and during the last 
months of his service he was assistant adjutant general of a brigade. 
After graduating he became a superintendent of schools. He was a 
teacher in the St. Louis public schools from 1873 to 1912. He retired in 
1912 to engage in literary work. He is the author of '"Philosophy of 
Landscape Painting," "The World Energy and its Conservation," and 
other works; also numerous monographs and magazine articles. He re- 
sides at Waynesville, N. C. 

Isaac William Pleasant Buchanan^ Cumberland, '85, received his 
Ph. D. degree from Harvard in 1893. He was professor of Mathematics at 
Cumberland from 1894 to 1898 and since then has been head master of 
Castle Heights School, Lebanon, Tenn. 

James Shannon Buchanan, Cumberland, '85, Vanderbilt, '94, from 
1887 to 1891 was principal of tlie Connersville Institute; from 1891 to 1893 
assistant state superintendent of schools of Tennessee and lecturer in Wat- 
kin's Institute; 1894-1895 professor of History in The Normal College of 
Oklahoma, from 1895 to 1913 professor of History in University of Oklaho- 
ma, and from 1908 to 1913 dean of College of Arts and Sciences. In 1906 
he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Oklahoma. 

Henry Augustus Buchtel, DePauw, '72, after graduation at once en- 
tered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a missionary 
at Rustchuk, Bulgaria, in 1873. He was then pastor of churches at Green- 
castle, Ind., 1873-76; Knightstown, Ind., 1876-79; Richmond, Ind., 1879-82; 
LaFayette, Ind., 1882-85; Denver, Colo., 1885-91; Indianapolis, Ind., 1891- 
96. In September of 1896 he went East and served the First Church at 
Mount Vernon, New York, for six months and was then appointed to Cal- 
vary Church, East Orange, N. J., at Easter in 1897, where he served as pas- 



60 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

tor until Christmas day in 1899. Since Christmas day in 1899 he has been 
chancellor of the University of Denver. He was Governor of Colorado for 
two years, from January, 1907 to January, 1909. This is the only instance 
in the histor}^ of the country when a minister of the Gospel has been invited 
to be governor of a state. He received the degree of D. D. from his Alma 
Mater in 1884 and LL. D. in 1900. He was secretary of the Fraternity con- 
vention of 1871. He resides at University Park, Colo. # B K. 

*BE>rjAMi3sr HoRR Buckingham, Western Reserve, '67, left college 
without graduating and entered the United States Naval Academy from 
which he graduated in 1869. He was gradually advanced to the rank of 
lieutenant commander with which he retired in 1898. From 1885 to 1890 
he was naval attache at the United States Legations at Paris, Berlin, St. 
Petersburg and London. He traveled extensively and was the author of 
"Observations on Siberia." He was a knight of the French Legion of 
Honor. He died at Washington in 1906. 

*JoHN Alexander Buckner, Central, '52, entered Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary and left without graduating on account of ill health. In 
1853 he became a minister in the Southern Presbyterian Church. In 1861 
he entered the Confederate armj^ as captain of the 8th Kentucky Infantry 
and was promoted until he became colonel and adjutant-general to Gen. 
John C. Breckenridge, and adjutant-general and chief of staff to Gen. S. 
B. Buckner. After the war he became a planter at Illawara, La. In 1884 
he was president of the Board of Commissioners of East Carroll Parish, 
La., and from 1892 to 1903 was a member of the 5th District Levee Board. 
He died at Illawara in 1903. 

Lester Rusk Budrow, Iowa, '97, graduated with the degree of Ph. B. 
He then took a special course of the Missouri School of Mines. He was 
associated with M. Guggenheim Sons and their mining companies from 
1899 to 1905. From 1905 to 1909 he was superintendent and manager of 
several large mining properties in Mexico. Since 1909 he has been general 
manager of the Tigre Mining Co., of Yzabal, Sonora, Mexico. His home 
is in San Diego, Cal. 

Eugene Jackson Buffington, Vanderbilt, '85, is president of the Illi- 
nois Steel Company at Chicago, one of the largest industrial concerns in 
the United States. He has also been president of the Indiana Steel Com- 
pany since its organization. Since 1910 he has been one of the trustees 
of Vanderbilt University. 




JOSEPH R. BURTON 
Hanover '73 




WILLIAM D. BTNUM 
Indiana '69 



EDWARD LAWYER BURCHARD <1 

*GusTAVus Adolphus Bull, Georgia, '54, received his A. B. degree upon 
graduation and became a school teacher at LaGrange, Ga. At the out- 
break of the war he entered the Confederate army as a captain and was 
successively promoted until he became a lieutenant-colonel. He was killed at 
the battle of Seven Pines in 1862. 

*JoHN Christian Bullitt, Transylvania, '42, received his college edu- 
cation at Centre College, studying law at Transylvania. He moved to 
Philadelphia and became very eminent as a railroad and corporation 
lawyer. In 1873 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
Pennsylvania. In 1877 he prepared the code of law for the government 
of cities of Pennsylvania which was known as the "Bullitt" bill. He died 
at Philadelphia in 1902. 

Henby Andrews Bumstead, Johns Hopkins, '91, received a Ph. D. 
degree from Yale in 1897. From 1891 \o 1893 he was assistant in Physics 
at Johns Hopkins. Since that date he has been connected with the Physics 
Department of the Sheifield Scientific School at Yale as instructor from 
1893 to 1900, assistant professor from 1900 to 1906 and professor and di- 
rector of the Sloane Laboratory since 1906. He is a member of tlie 
American Physical Society and the National Academy of Science. He re- 
sides at New Haven. * B K, 2 S. 

Omar Bundy, DePauw, '81, left college before graduation and entered 
"West Point Academy and after graduation entered the army, graduilly 
advancing in the service until he is now a lieutenant colonel of infantry. 

Charles Henry Bunting, Wisconsin, '96, was a Fellow in Biology 
during the year 1906-07. He received the degree of M. D. from Johns 
Hopkins in 1901 and was assistant in the John Hopkins hospital in 1901- 
02. In 1902-03 he was assistant demonstrator in Pathology at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania and from 1903 to 1906 was associate professor of 
Pathology at'johns Hopkins. From 1906 to 1908 he was professor of 
Pathology at the University of Virginia and since 1908 has held a similar 
chair at the University of Wisconsin. He is a Fellow of the American 
Society for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of many learned 
societies and has written much for professional journals on Haematology 
and Anemia. He resides at Madison, Wis. N 2 N, ^9. A, S S. 

Edward Lawver Burchard, Beloit, '91, graduated with the degree of 
Ph. B. He was recorder and librarian of the Field Museum of Natural 
History from 1894 to 1898. He was chief of the library and archives 
division of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington from 



62 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

1S98 to 1903, and chief of the order division of the Library of Congress 
from 1903 to 1906 and he has been director of the extension department 
of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy since 1909. He resides 
at Oak Park, 111.. * B K. 

Charles Williams Bukdick, Ohio Wesleyan, '81, graduated from the 
law department of the University of Michigan in 1894 and entered upon the 
practice of law at Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1888 he became state auditor and a 
member of the territorial council. In 1889 he was a member of the State 
Constitutional Covention, and from 1891 to 1895 was state auditor of Wy- 
oming and from 1895 to 1899 secretary of the state of Wyoming. He resides 
at Cheyenne, Wyo. 

Charles Frederick Burgess, Wisconsin, '95, organized the department 
of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin immediately after 
graduation, and was at first an instructor in it and then a professor. He 
has been an inventor of various electrolytic processes. He was a member of 
the International Jury of Awards at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and 
is a member of the different societies relating to his specialty. He resides 
at Madison, Wis. 

George Heckman Burgess, Wisconsin, '75, has been for many years 
chief engineer of the Delaware Hudson Co.; since 1913 he has been chair- 
man of the Valuation Committee of the same railroad. He resides at Al- 
bany, N. Y. 

John William Burgess, Cumberland, '62, left college before his 
graduation and studied at Knox College and at Amherst, graduating from 
the latter in 1867. From 1869 to 1871 he was professor of English Lit- 
erature and Political Economy at Knox. From 1871 to 1873 he studied 
History and Political Science at different universities in Europe and re- 
ceived the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Berlin in 1873. From 
1873 to 1876 he was professor of History and Political Science at Am- 
herst, from 1876 to 1912 professor of Political Science and Constitu- 
tional Law at Columbia, and since 1890 was dean of the School of 
Political Science. In 1906 and 1907 he was the Roosevelt Professor of 
American History and Institutions at the Friedrich Wilhelms University at 
Berlin. He received the degree of LL. D. from Amherst in 1884 and Ph. D. 
from Princeton in 1883. He is the author of "Political Science and Com- 
parative Constitutional Law," "The Middle Period," "Reconstruction and 
the Constitution." He has been for many years a trustee of Amherst Col- 
lege. He resides in New York. He is an honorary member of Alpha 
Delta Phi. 



NATHANIEL CLARK BURT 63 

James Audubon Bukhaxs, DePauw, '75, studied law and received the 
degree of LL. B. from Chicago in 1877. He is a specialist in the law relating 
to investments and is the author of "The Law of Municipal Bonds," and 
"Digest of the Laws Governing the Investment of Corporate and Trust 
Funds." He was American Secretary of the World's Sunday School Con- 
vention in London, 1889. He was catalogue editor of the fraternity, 1879. 
He resides at Chicago. 

Jesse McGarritv Burxett, Riclimond, '91, graduated in 1894 at the 
Soutliern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was professor of Greek at 
Carson-Newman College from 1894 to 1912 and since 1912 has been presi- 
dent of that college. Tlie degree of D. D. was conferred on liim by Carson- 
Newman College in 1906. He resides at Jefferson City, Tennessee. 

William Paxton Burris, DePauw, '91, after graduation was superin- 
tendent of public schools at Bluffton, Ind., until 1897, and at Salem, Ohio, 
until 1900. He then studied at Harvard, receiving his master's degree in 
1901 and was a scholar and Fellow at the teachers' college of Columbia Uni- 
versity in 1902 and 1903. From 1903 to 1905 he was principal of the Teacher's 
Training Scliool at Albany, N. Y. Since 1905 he has been professor of the His- 
tory and Principles of Education and dean of the college for teachers at the 
University of Cincinnati. DePauw conferred the degree of doctor of letters 
upon him in 1911, and he was a member of the faculty at the summer ses- 
sion of Johns Hopkins the same year. The following summer he was a 
member of the faculty at the University of Wyoming. Under the direction 
of the United States Commissioner of Education he has made a survey of 
tlie public school system of Gary, Ind., the same to be issued as a bulletin 
of the United State's Bureau of Education. He is tiie author of "Reform in 
City School Administration," 1909; "y\ University Course in Public School 
Administration," 1910. He is a member of the National Council of Educa- 
tion, Society of College Teachers of Education, and American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He resides at Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

*Nathaniel Clark Burt, Princeton, '4fi, graduated with first honors 
in his class. He graduated at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1850. 
He was pastor of the First Cinirch, Springfield, Ohio, from 1850 to 1855; of 
the Franklin Street Church, Baltimore, from 1855 to 1860, and of the 
Seventh Church, Cincinnati, from 1860 to 1868. From 1868 to 1870 he was 
president of Ohio Female College and from 1870 to 1874 of a famous 
academy for girls at Nice, France. He was a great traveler and a volum- 
inous author on subjects relating to the Holy Land. He was the author of 
"Redemption's Dawn," "Hours Among the Gospels," "The Far East," and 
"The Land and its Storv." He died at Rome, Italv, March 4, 1874. 



64 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Joseph Ralph Burton, Hanover, '73, attended Franklin College, In- 
diana, for three years and DePauw University for one year. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Kansas in 1875. He was a member of the Legislature 
of Kansas for three terms, from 1892 to 1898. From 1901 to 1907 he was 
United States Senator from Kansas. He resides at Abilene, Kansas. 

*Samuel Hamilton Buskirk, Indiana, '45, was a member of the Indi- 
ana Legislature from 1848 to 1854 and 1862 to 1865, and was speaker dur- 
ing the entire portion of his last term. In 1870 he became judge of the 
Supreme Court of Indiana and served until 1876, when he resigned and 
resumed the active practice of the law at Indianapolis, Ind. He died at 
Indianapolis, April 3, 1879. He was the author of "Buskirk's Practice." 
He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Indiana in 1871. 

William Walter Bustard, Colgate, '95, Brown, '95, took his A. B. 
degree at the latter institution. He graduated at the Newton Theological 
Institution in 1898. He was pastor of the Baptist church at Amesbury, 
Mass., in 1898 and 1899; of the Dudley St. Baptist church of Boston from 
1900 to 1909, and since 1909 has been in charge of the Euclid Avenue Bap- 
tist church of Cleveland, O. He is director of the Christian Endeavor 
Society of Ohio and president of the American Civic Reform Union. He 
has the degree of D. D. 

*Frank Roscoe Butler, Boston, '82, was professor of English Liter- 
ature at the Women's College at Baltimore from 1889 to 1896 and of the 
same subject at Boston University from 1896 to 1900. He died at Salem, 
Mass., in 1905. * B K. 

William Dallas Bynuji, Indiana, '69, studied law and practiced at 
Washington, Ind. From 1871 to 1875 he was city attorney of Washing- 
ton, Ind., and from 1875 to 1879 its mayor. He was a presidential elector 
in 1876. He was a member of the Indiana Legislature from 1882 to 1884, 
and its speaker. In 1885 he was elected to Congress and served until 
1894. He was instrumental in organizing the Gold Democracy party in 
1896, and was chairman of the National Democratic Committee during 
the campaign of 1896. From 1900 to 1907 he was a member of the com- 
mission to revise the laws of the United States. He resides at Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 

Joseph Wellington Byrns, Vanderbilt, '91, studied law and has prac- 
ticed at Nashville, Tenn., since his graduation. He was a member of the 
Tennessee Legislature, 1895 to 1900, and in 1899 was unanimously elected 
speaker. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate, 1900-1902. In 1904 he 
was a presidential elector. He has been a member of Congrss since 1909. 




JOSEPH AV. BYRNS 
Vanderbilt '91 




JOHN P. CAMPBELL, 
Johns Hopkins '85 



c 



*Philip Barraud Cabell, Virginia, '57, studied at the Theological Sem- 
inary at Hampden-Sidney, Va., and became a Swedenborgian clergyman. 
During the war he was captain in the 18th Virginia Infantry in the Con- 
federate army and served throughout the war. From 1871 to 1873 he 
was principal of the Greensboro Normal College and from 1875 to 1884 
professor of Ancient Languages at Urbana University. He then became 
pastor of a Swedenborgian cluirch at Wilmington, Del., and died there 
in 1904. 

JoHX LivY Caldwell, Hainpden-Sidney, '70, graduated at Princeton 
in 1870 with a degree of A. B. He studied at the Union Theological Sem- 
inary of Virginia from 1871 to 1873 and graduated from the Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1874. He has been pastor of a number of Pres- 
byterian churches. He had charge of a church at Pine Bluff, Ark., from 
1893 to 1905. Since 1911 he has been president of Queen College (for 
women). He was mayor of Pine Bluff in 1906. The degree of D. D. was 
conferred on him by Central University in 1888. His address is Char- 
lotte, N. C. 

Joseph Weisiger Caldwell, Central, '81, graduated at the Theological 
Department of Cumberland University in 1886. From 1889 to 1890 he 
studied at the University of Berlin, and became a minister of the Cumber- 
land Presbyterian church. By reason of the union of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian church with the Presbyterian church. South, he became a 
member of the latter church. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Pan Pres- 
byterian Alliance at London. He received the degree of D. D. from Trin- 
ity University in 1907 and Cumberland University in 1908. He resides at 
Denton, Texas. 

Waller Cockrax Caldwell, Cumberland, '71, graduated from the Law 
School in 1872 and began the practice of law at Trenton, Tenn. From 1883 
to 1886 he was judge of the Referee Court of Tennessee and from 1886 to 
1902 of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. 

*JosEPH Haddex Calvix, Washington & Jefferson, '49, entered the 
Princeton Theological Seminar}^ and graduated from there in 1852. He be- 
came a Presbyterian minister and teacher and taught at a number of 

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66 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

schools in Kentucky. In 1860 he became professor of Greek at Oakland 
College, Miss., and in 1865 president of that college, serving until his 
death, which occurred Feb. 14, 1867. 

Archibald Alexander Campbell, H amp den-Sidney, '79, graduated in 
the law department of the University of Virginia in 1880 and being admit- 
ted to the bar practiced law at Wytheville, Va., until 1911, when he was 
appointed circuit judge of the 21st Virginia District to serve in place of 
Judge Massie, who was murdered by the Allen family of mountaineers in 
the court room. He resides at Wytheville, Va. 

George Barnes Campbell, Cumberland, '56, entered the Confederate 
Army in 1861 and became a major and inspector of Randall's Brigade. 
He is a retired merchant and resides at Waco, Texas. 

George Murray Campbell, Johns Hopkins, '86, graduated at Dalhousie 
College in 1882 before attending Johns Hopkins, and graduated from Belle- 
vue in 1890, and began the practice of medicine at Halifax, N. S. Since 
1897 he has been professor of Pathology at Halifax Medical College. 

*JoH>r Lyle Campbell, Wabash, '48, was professor of Physics and As- 
tronomy at Wabash College from 1852 to 1903. From 1872 to 1876 he was 
secretary of the United States Centennial Commission, having suggested the 
Centennial Exposition. He was attached to the United States Coast and 
Geodetic Survey from 1881 to 1889. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
the University of Indiana in 1876. He was a member of a number ot 
learned societies. He died in 1904 at Crawfordsville, Ind. 

John Pendleton Campbell, Johns Hopkins, '85, received the degree 
of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins in 1888, and since that time has been pro- 
fessor of Biology at the University of Georgia. He is a member of the 
American Society of Naturalists, American Microscopical Society, the 
American Physiological Society and other learned organizations. He re- 
sides at Athens, Ga. * B K. 

William H. Campbell, Iowa Wesleyan, '70, was a member of the 
Iowa Legislature in 1870-71 and of the Oklahoma Legislature, 1890-91. 
During the war he was a captain in the Union army in the Fourth Iowa 
Infantry. 

Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Jr., Mississippi, '81, studied law and be- 
gan its practice in 1881 at luka, Miss. In 1887 he removed to Corinth, 
Miss., where he now resides. He was a presidential elector in 1888.. From 
1901 to 1909 he was a member of Congress, succeeding John M. Allen 




EZEKIEL S. CANDLER, 
Mississippi '81 




THOMAS CARMODY 
Cornell '82 



ALLAN WADSWORTH CApPflXTf^Ut 67 

(Cumberland, '67). He is moderator of the Tishomingo Baptist Associa- 
tion and has many times been its representative at conventions of the 
Baptist church. 

Charles Hexky Cahey, Denison, '81, graduated in law from the Cin- 
cinnati Law Scliool in 1883 and has been engaged in i)ractice at Portland, 
Oregon, ever since. He is a member of the firm of Carey & Kerr. He has 
made a specialty of corporation and railroad law and is an officer of many 
corporations and counsel in Oregon for the so-called Hill Railroad Lines 
and corporations. Since 1902 he has been president of the yVmerican In- 
vestment Co. From 1892 to 1895 he was a municipal judge at Portland. In 
1895 and 1896 he was president of the State I,eague of Republican Clubs. 
From 1904 to 1906 he was a member of the Republican National Commit- 
tee. In 1912-13 he was president of the Oregon Bar Association. He is the 
author of an Index-Digest of tlie Oregon and Washington Reports and as- 
sociate author of "History of the Pacific Northwest." He resides at Port- 
land, Oregon. 

Thomas Carmody, Cornell, '82, was educated at the Academy at Penn 
Yan, N. Y., and at Cornell University. He studied law and was admitted to 
the bar and has since practiced at Penn Yan. In 1889 he was appointed dis- 
trict attorney of Yates County, New York. From 1893 to 1896 he was chief 
examiner of the New York State Civil Service Commission. He was elected 
attorney-general of the State of New York in 1910 for two years and re- 
elected in 1912. Before assuming the duties of attorney-general he lectured 
quite extensively. He resigned in 1914 and is now practicing in New York 
City. 

*Ja>ies Richard Carnahan, Wabash, ^66, entered the Union army in 
1861 as a private in the 11th Indiana Volunteers. He became lieutenant 
of the 86th Indiana Volunteers and was promoted to the rank of captain 
for gallant conduct at the battle of Stone River. He was adjutant-general 
of Indiana from 1882 to 1885. He was prosecuting attorney of the 19th 
Judicial District of Indiana for five successive terms. He was inspector- 
general of the G. A. R. and general-in-chief of tiie Uniformed Rank of the 
Knights of Pythias. He died at Indianapolis in 1905. 

Ai.i.AX Wadsworth Carpenter, Case, '9.5, has been since 1900 in the 
service of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, occupying 
successively the positions of assistant engineer, supervisor of bridges and 
buildings, division engineer, engineer of bridges, engineer of structures, 
and assistant valuation engineer, which position he now holds. He is a 
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68 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

ing the New York Central Railroad. He received the degree of C. E. 
from Case in 1897. He resides at Yonkers, N. Y. S S. 

*Alonzo Philetas CarpekteRj Williams, '49, after leaving college 
studied law and settled down to practice at Bath, N. H. In 1881 he be- 
came a justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire and removed 
to Concord. He died there in 1898 while still serving on that court. He 
received the degree of LL. D. from Williams in 1889 and from Dart- 
mouth in 1894. 

Franklin George Carpenter, Wooster, '77, has been a newspaper 
writer and a traveling correspondent for different journals since his grad- 
uation from college. In 1882 he was Washington correspondent of the 
Cleveland Leader; in 1884 for the American Press Association; in 1887 for 
the New York World. In 1888 and 1889 he made a trip around the world 
for a newspaper and magazine syndicate. Since that time he has made a 
number of trips to countries all over the world, reporting current occur- 
rences of interest. He is the author of a number of works, many of them 
made up of his correspondence to newspapers. He is also the author of a 
series of geographical readers, covering "Asia," "North America," "Soutii 
America," "Europe" and "Australia," and "Our Colonies and Other Islands 
of the Seas" and "Africa." Also "Through Asia with the Children," 
"Through North America with the Children," "How the World is Fed," 
"How the World is Clothed," "How the World is Housed," "South Amer- 
ica." He has received the degree of Litt. S. from Wooster. He resides at 
Washington, D. C. 

Alexander Mitchell Carroll, Richmond, '88, Johns Hopkins, '93, 
studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin in 1893 and 1894. From 
1895 to 1897 he was professor of Greek in Richmond College. In 1897 and 
1898 he was a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Ath- 
ens, Greece. Since 1899 he has been professor of Classics at George Wash- 
ington University. He is the author of a number of works relating to the 
Classics namely, "Aristotle's Poetics," "Greek Women" and "Early Christian 
Women," and has edited "The Attica of Pausanias." He is general secretary 
of the Archaeological Institute of America and vice president of the Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences. He resides in Washington, D. C. $ B K. 

William Herbert Carruth, Kansas, '80, received an A. M. degree 
from the University of Kansas in 1883 and from Harvard in 1889 and a 
Ph. D. degree from Harvard in 1893. For twenty years he was 
connected with the department of I^anguages at the University of 




FRANKLIN G. CARPENTER 
Wooster '77 




A. MITCHELL. CARROLL. 
Richmond '88 



LORENZO DOW CASE 6«) 

Kansas. From 1880 to 1882 lie was an assistant professor, from 1882 to 
1887 professor of Modern Languages and since 1887 professor of the Ger- 
man Language and vice president of the University. Since 1913 he has 
been professor of Comparative I>iterature in Stanford University. He is 
a member of a large number of learned societies. He is the author of a 
number of books relating to language study, among others, "Schiller's 
Wallenstein," "Schetfel's Ekkehard," "Schiller's Wilhelm Tell," "Auswahl 
Alls Luther's Deutschen Schriften," "Schiller's Die Braut von Messina," 
"Otis' Elementary German Grammar," "German Reader." He is the 
translator of "Cornhill's History of the People of Lsrael," "Gunkel's Leg- 
ends of the Genesis," and author of "Letters to American Boys," "Each in 
his own Tongue" and other poems. He resides at Stanford University. 

William Massey Caurittii, Cornell, '01, Western Reserve, '01, was a 
teacher in the Philippine Government Service from 1901 to 1904, assist- 
ant in Mathematics at Cornell during 1905-OG, a Fellow in Mathematics at 
Cornell during 1906-07, and since 1907 an associate professor of Mathe- 
matics at Hamilton College. He is a member of the American Mathe- 
matical Society. 4> B K, :S S. 

CHAni.Es William Carteh, Centenary, '55, became a Methodist min- 
ister in the Southern Church. From 1898 to 1906 he was president of Cen- 
tenary College. He received the degree of D. D. in 1871. He is retired 
and resides at Natchitoches, La. 

George William Carter, Wesleyan, '92, graduated from the Drew 
Theological Seminary in 1893. In 1893 and 1894 he was a student at Oxford 
Universit}', England. He was at first a Methodist Episcopal minister and 
later entered the Dutch Reformed church. He is general secretary of the 
New York Bible Society. He received the degree of M. A. from Yale in 1899 
and Ph. D. from New York University in 1900. 

*NoAH Cartwright, Miami, '58, after graduation became a teacher 
and was principal of a Masonic Seminary at Columbus, Ky., from 1859 
to 1861. When the war broke out he became a captain in the 15th Ken- 
tucky Volunteer Infantry in the Union army and rose to be its colonel, 
but resigned in 1863 on account of injuries received in the service. He 
became a farmer at Fern Creek, Ky., and died there in 1903. 

Lorenzo Dow Case, St. Lawrence, "95, graduated with the degree of 
Ph. B. A year later he graduated from the Canton Theological School. 
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70 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

N. Y., from 1895 to 1900; at Albany, N. Y., from 1900 to 1906, and since 
1906 he has been pastor of the St. Paul's Universalist church of Chicago. 
Pie is a trustee of Lombard College and received a D. D. degree from that 
college in 1907. * B K. 

Clarence Fassett Castle, Denison, '80, was principal of schools at 
Granville, Ohio, in 1881 and 1882, and instructor in Latin and Greek at 
Granville Academy from 1882 to 1886. He was a graduate student at Yale 
from 1886 to 1888, and professor of Greek at Bucknell from 1886 to 1892, 
since which time he has been associate professor of Greek .at the University 
of Chicago. He is the author of Harper's and Castle's "Inductive Greek 
Primer" and "Greek Prose Composition." He received the degree of Ph. 
D. from Yale in 1888. He resides in Chicago. <!• B K. 

William Ernst Castle, Denison, '89, attended Harvard, receiving 
from it a Ph. D. degree in 1895. From 1889 to 1892 he was professor of 
Latin at Ottawa University. From 1895 to 1896 he was instructor in 
Anatomy at Wisconsin and from 1896 to 1897 instructor in Biology at 
Knox. Since 1897 he has been teaching Zoology at Harvard as an instructor, 
assistant professor and since 1908 as professor. He is a Fellow of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He has been secretary of the American 
Society of Naturalists and president of one of the divisions of the Ameri- 
can Society of Zoologists. He resides at Belmont, Mass. <!> B K. 

*Henry Sullivan Caitthorn, DePauw, '48, studied law and settled 
at- Vincennes, Ind. From 1853 to 1855 he was prosecuting attorney of 
Knox County, Indiana; from 1855 to 1857 city attorney for Vincennes; 
from 1860 to 1868 clerk of the Circuit Court. In 1870 he was elected to 
the mdiana Legislature and served one term; in 1878 he was again 
elected and was chosen as speaker. In 1884 he was presidential elector. 
He died at Vincennes in 1905. 

*Aden Gaikey Cavins, DePauw, '49, studied law and graduated at 
the Indiana Law School in 1850. He moved to Nebraska and in 1860 was 
a member of the Nebraska Legislature. At the outbreak of the war he 
joined the 59th Indiana Volunteers and became in succession captain, 
major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel. In 1880 he was a presidential 
elector. He died in 1906 at Bloomfield, Ind. 

Orange Howard Cessna, Northwestern, '84, graduated from the Iowa 
State College in 1872, and in theology from the Garrett Biblical Institute in 
1885, and became a Methodist Episcopal clergymen. In 1900 he received the 



BERNARD PEEL CHENOWETH 71 

degree of D. D. from Garrett, and in 1901 A. M. from Cornell College. 
Since 1900 he has been professor of History and Psychology in the Iowa 
State College at Ames, Iowa. 

*WiLLiAM Henry Chambers, Emory, '45, graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1847 and entered upon the practice of the law at Columbus 
Ga. In 1850 he became editor of the Columbus Sentinel. In 1856 he was 
elected to the Georgia Legislature and served until the outbreak of the 
war, when he entered the Confederate army and rose to be colonel of the 
4th Georgia Infantry. He also served as state paymaster until 1865. After 
the war he moved to Auburn, Ala., and became a member of the Alabama 
Senate for three terms, serving as its speaker in 1876-77. He was president 
of the Democratic State Convention of 1876. In 1879 he became professor 
of English at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, and died 
at Auburn, Ala., July 4, 1881. 

*Edward Bruce Chandler, Michigan, '58, for many years was promi- 
nent in telegraph construction and management through the northwest. 
From 1865 to 1876 he was superintendent of the fire alarm telegraph sys- 
tem in Chicago and was such at the time of the Chicago fire. From 1876 to 
1904 he was the general western agent of the Gamewell Fire Alarm Tele- 
graph Company, and from 1882 to 1904 president of the Police Telephone 
and Signal Company. He was president of the fraternity convention of 
1892 and a member of the Board of Directors from 1894 to 1897. He died 
at Chicago June 6, 1904. 

Herman Haupt Chapman, Minnesota, '96, graduated from the agricul- 
tural department of the University of Minnesota in 1899 and from the 
Yale Forestry School in 1904. He entered the government forestry service 
and for a number of years (1898-1904) was superintendent of an experi- 
mental forestry station in Minnesota. He is Harriman Professor of For- 
est Management at the Yale Forestry School. He is a director in the 
American Forestry Association. He resides in New Haven, Conn. S S- 

*Fred Lemar Chari.es, Northwestern, '94, was professor of Biology 
at the Northern Illinois State Normal School 1900-1905, and professor of 
agricultural education at the University of Illinois 1905-1911. He was 
editor of the Nature Study Review. He died at Urbana, 111., in 1911. 

*Bernard Peel Chenoweth, DePauw, '61, did not graduate, but en- 
tered the Union army in 1861 as captain in the first regiment of Volunteers 
raised in Kansas. He held that position until 1864, when he was appointed 
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72 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

and Sherman. After the war, from 1865 to 1868, he was superintendent of 
schools at Worcester, Mass. He was then appointed Consul General at 
Canton, China, and died there June 21, 1870. 

Pestxei, Cherringtox, Ohio Wesleyan, '92, graduated from the Cin- 
cinnati Law School in 1894. He practiced law in Utah, where for a time 
he was United States district attorney. He now resides at Los Angeles, 
California, and is the attorney in California for the San Pedro, Los An- 
geles and Salt Lake R. R. Co. 

Daniel Webster Chester, Colgate, '00, received his A. M. degree 
from Harvard in 1908. He is professor of Biology at Colby College, Wat- 
erville, Me. $ B K. 

Waylaxd Morgax Chester, Colgate, '94, was from 1894 to 1896 as- 
sistant in Geolog}^ and Natural History at Colgate. Since the last men- 
tioned date he has been instructor and professor of Biology. In the sum- 
mer of 1910 and 1913 he was in charge of the Bermuda Biological Station 
for Research. He is a member of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science and the American Society of Zoologists. He has 
been a contributor to numerous scientific journals and is the author of 
"A Guide to General Biology." He resides at Hamilton, N. Y. <E> B K. . 

*Alokzo W^ebster Chitrch, Georgia, '47, was born at Athens, Ga., Feb- 
ruary 16th, 1827. He graduated with honors and taught school in Georgia 
for three years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced 
in Cass County, Georgia, until 1854, when he moved to Davenport, Iowa. In 
1860 he was appointed general solicitor for the Chicago & Alton R. R. and 
moved to Chicago. In 1886 he resigned to become librarian of the United 
States Senate. He died at Washington, D. C, August 12, 1909. 

*AuGUSTUs Byixgtox Church, St. Lawrence, '86, graduated from the 
Canton Theological School in 1888 and entered the ministry of the Uni- 
versalist church, becoming pastor of the First Church at S. Berwick. 
Maine, which he served from 1888 to 1890. From 1890 to 1897 he was pas- 
tor of a church at North Adams, Mass., and from 1897 to 1901 of one at 
Akron, Ohio. From 1901 to 1912 he was president of Buchtel College, Ak- 
ron, Ohio. He died at Akron Nov. 6, 1912. He received the degree of A. M. 
from Buchtel in 1899, D. D. from St. Lawrence in 1901, and LL. D. from 
Tufts in 1905. 

*Benjamin Silliman Church, Dartmouth, '56, was one of the design- 
ers of the Croton Aqueduct and one of the best known civil engineers 
in the country. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1856, where 




TIMOTHY CI.ORAN 
Western Resei-ve '91 




JOHN COBURN 
Wabash '46 



JOHN GOODRICH CLARK 73 

he took a course in civil engineering. In 1860 he Ijecame the prin- 
cipal assistant on the Croton Aqueduct. In 1875 lie prepared plans for 
utilizing the entire Croton watershed, and in 1883 became chief engineer 
under a commission having in hand the construction of the new aqueduct. 
He died December 9, 1910, at Yonkers, N. Y. 

*George Churciiili,, Knox, '61, became principal of the Knox Acad- 
emy at Galesburg, 111., in 1865, a position he retained until his death in 
1899. He was a member of the city council of Galesburg from 1866 to 1880 
and from 1868 to 1898 was engineer of the city. He was the author of a 
"History of Knox College" and "The Semi-Centennial History of Gales- 
burg." 

*Francis Barxard Cr.ARK^ Virginia Military Institute, '70, after his 
graduation was admitted to the bar and practiced at Mobile, Ala. In 1879 
he was reporter of the Supreme Court of Alabama. He was author of 
"Clark's Manual of Crminal Law," "Clark's Digest," "Clark's Form Book" 
and "The Criminal Code of Alabama" and editor of Volumes 57 and 58 of 
the Alabama Reports. He was state solicitor for Mobile County from 1880 
to 1886 and secretary to the governor of Alabama in 1878 and 1879. In 
1879 and 1881 he was captain of the Washington I>ight Infantry in the 
Alabama State Troops. He died at Mobile in 1901. 

*Gaylord Blair Ci.ark, Washington & Lee, '67, was a student at the 
Virginia Military Institute and was a lieutenant in its corps of cadets 
from 1864 to 1866. He was educated as a civil engineer and lawyer and 
engaged in practice at Mobile, Ala., where he was counsel for many im- 
portant interests and was general counsel for the Mobile & Birmingham 
R. R. Co., from 1880 to 1893. He was a member of the Aalabama Legisla- 
ture from 1878 to 1880. He declined an appointment to the Supreme Court 
of Alabama. He died June 14, 1893. 

John Goodrich Clark, Pennsylvania, '91, Ohio Wesleyan, '88, grad- 
uated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the 
Universities of Prag and Leipzic. Returning to the United States he set- 
tled in Philadelphia and became a specialist in Gynecology. He was for a 
time resident physician at St. Agnes' and the Children's Hospitals in Phil- 
adelphia and resident in the surgical wards at Bellevue Hospital, New 
York, also resident gynecologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 
and associate professor of gynecology at Johns Hopkins University. He is 
now professor of Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania, Gynecolo- 
gist in chief at the University Hospital and Consulting Gynecologist at 
many other hospitals. He resides in Philadelphia. 



74 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*RusH Clark, Washington & Jefferson, '53, moved to Iowa City, Iowa, 
from Pennsylvania soon after his graduation and became a lawyer. From 
1860 to 1864 he was a member of the lower House of the Iowa Legislature 
and from 1862 to 1864 its speaker. He was elected a member of the United 
States House of Representatives and served from 1877 to 1879, and died at 
Washington April 28th, 1879. During the first two years of the Civil war 
he served as an aide to the governor of Iowa with the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel. He was a trustee of the University of Iowa for several years. 

Thomas Harvey Clark, Howard, '77, graduated at Harvard in 1879 
and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1882. From 1892 to 
1896 he was a member of the Legislature of Alabama and from 1894 to 
1896 its speaker. From 1897 to 1903 he was librarian of the Law Li- 
brary of Congress. Since 1903 he has been reporter and librarian of the 
United States Court of Customs Appeals at Washington, D. C. He is- 
the author of "History of Montgomery, Ala." "Judicial History of Ala- 
bama," and a "Financial History of Alabama." 

Victor Selden Clark, Minnesota, '90, studied at Goettingen and 
Berne in 1892 and 1893 as an honorary Fellow of Chicago University, and 
was a Fellow at Columbia University in 1897 and 1898, receiving his de- 
gree of Ph. D. from Columbia in 1900. From 1894 to 1897 he was a high 
school principal and city superintendent of schools in Minnesota, and in 
1899 and 1900 was superintendent of public instruction and president of 
the Insular Board of Education in Porto Rico. From 1902 to 1910 he w?is 
principally engaged in studying foreign and insular labor conditions for 
the United States Bureau of Labor. In 1910 he had charge of the census 
of Hawaii and from 1910 to 1913 was commissioner of immigration, labor 
and statistics of that territory. At present he is in charge of the division 
of industrial history of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He is a 
member of the American Economic Association, the American Political 
Science Association, the American Statistical Association and the American 
Association for the Advancement of Labor Legislation. He was the editor 
of "The Colloquies of Erasmus" and of "Eutropius Historia Romana." He 
is the author of the "Teachers' Manual," "Students in the Latin of the 
Middle Ages and the Renaissance," "Education in Puerto Rico" and of 
books relating to labor conditions in Cuba, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, 
Philippines, Java and Mexico, the "Labor Movement in Australasia," "The 
Canadian Industrial Disputes Act," "Women and Children Wage Earners 
in Great Britain," etc. He lectured on Australasian economic problems at 
Harvard in 1908. He resides at Washington, D. C. 



ISAAC CLEMENTS 75 

*Frank Gay Ci.ahke, Dartmouth, '73, studied law and practiced at 
Petersboro, N. H. He was a member of Congress from 1880 to 1901. He 
died January f), 1901. 

Geouok CAi.KKAiTit Ci.AHKi:, Pennsylvania State, '91, from 1904 to 1911 
lias been resident engineer of tlie Pennsylvania Terminal enterprise in 
New York City, and since 1911 has been director and chief engineer of 
Fraser Brace & Company, engaged in developing hydro-electric powers. 
From 1911 to 1914 he was president of the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers. 

*JoiiN Eastmax Ci.akkk, Boston, '78, received the degree of Ph. D. 
in 1882. He also did graduate work at Harvard, tlie University of Chi- 
cago, the University of Berlin and the Sorl)onne at Paris. In 1908 he be- 
came an instructor in History and Philosophy at Boston University and 
in 1912 professor of Education and Public School Administration in that 
university. He was an expert mathematician, particularly well versed in 
Natural History and Astronomy, and was familinr with at least ten lan- 
guages. He died at Cambridge, Nov. 22, 1913. 

*Powhatan Ci.akke, Virginia, '.57, studied medicine at the University 
of the City of New York, where he graduated in 18.58. In 1861 he be- 
came professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Louisiana. 
At the outbreak of the war he became a colonel and chief of ordnance in the 
Confederate army in the districts of Western Louisiana and Arkansas 
and served throughout the war. After the war he began the practice of 
medicine at Baltimore, Md., and from 1872 imtil the time of his death, 
which occurred in 1903, he was professor of Physics and Chemistry at the 
Baltimore City College. 

Charles Baii.ey Ciecc, Miami, '64, served as a private in 1864 in the 
131st Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. He is engaged in the 
street railway business and is president of the Oakwood Street Railway 
Company, vice president of the City Railway Co. (of Dayton, O.), and vice 
president of the Dayton & Troy Electric Railway Co. He resides at Day- 
ton, Ohio. 

*Isaac Clements, DePauw, '59, was salutatorian at graduation. He 
studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. At the outbreak of the 
war he entered the LTnion army as a 2nd lieutenant in the 9th Illinois Vol- 
\mteers and rose to be a captain. He was seriously wounded at the battle 
of Shiloh and the battle of Corinth. After the war he was appointed regis- 
ter in bankruptcy, a position he held until 1872. He was a member of Con- 



76 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

gress from 1872 to 1874. He became interested in penology and from 1877 
to 1899 was commissioner of the Southern Illinois penitentiary. From 1899 
until his death in 1909 he was governor of the National Home for Disabled 
Volunteer Soldiers at Danville, 111. 

Stephen DAvro Clements^ Emory, '54, became a Methodist clergyman. 
From 1858 to 1861 he was president of Le Vert College. In 1861 he en- 
tered the Confederate army as first lieutenant of the 2nd Georgia Infantry 
and at the close of the war was lieutenant-colonel of the 41st Georgia In- 
fantry. He is a teacher in the Collingsworth Institute and resides at White 
Sulphur Springs, Ga. 

*James Douglas Cleveland, Western Reserve, '44, left college without 
graduation and went to New Orleans, where he taught school until 1855, 
when he became editor of the Cleveland Plaindealer , a position he retained 
for several years. He had studied law while in Louisiana and was admitted 
to the bar and from 1869 to 1872 was judge of the Municipal Court in 
Cleveland. He was a trustee of the Case School of Applied Science for many 
years. He died in Cleveland in 1899. 

*Thomas Pipkin Clinton, Centenary, '56, graduated from the law 
department of the University of Louisiana in 1858. From 1878 to 1880 he 
was district attorney and from 1880 to 1885 judge of the Court of Ap- 
peals. He died at St. Joseph, La., in 1900. 

Edward Nicholas Clopper, Bethany, '97, from 1901 to 1903 was a 
teacher in Porto Rico. From 1903 to 1904 he was superintendent of 
scliools, District of San Juan. From 1904 to 1907 he was principal of the 
Central High School of Porto Rico and the following year he was general 
superintendent of the Porto Rico schools. He was the Ohio Valley sec- 
retary of the National Child Labor Committee from 1908 to 1911, and 
Mississippi Valley secretary of the same from 1911 to 1912. He was 
superintendent of the Cincinnati liouse of refuge in 1912 to 1913; and is 
now the secretary of the National Child Labor Commission. He is the 
author of "Child Labor in City Streets," and several other books. The 
University of Cincinnati gave him the degree of A. M. in 1910 and Ph. D. 
in 1912. His office is in New York City. 

Timothy Cloran, Western Reserve, '91, is professor of Romance Lan- 
guages at the University of Oregon. After graduation he was instructor of 
Latin and Greek at Geneva, Ohio. He then became professor of French, 
German and Greek at Shurtleff College from 1893 to 1897. He then went 
abroad and studied at the University of Berlin, 1897-1898, and the Univer- 




SCHUYLER COLFAX 
DePauw '54 




JOHN H. COTTERAL, 
Michigan '87 



WILLIAM TURNER COGdESHALL 77 

sity of Strassburj;:, 1898-99. He was professor of Modern Languages at the 
University of Idaho, 1890-00, and adjunct professor at Vanderbilt until 
1904, and professor since 1906 at the University of Oregon. He attended 
the University of Paris in 1904-05 and of Madrid, 190.5-06. He received the 
degree of Ph. D. in 1901 from the University of Strassburg. He is the au- 
thor of a number of works on language study. 4> B K. 

*JoHx CoBinx, Wabash, '46, studied law and began its practice at 
Indianapolis, Ind. He was a member of the Indiana Legislature from 1850 
to 18.51 and judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1859 to 1861. In 
1861 he entered the Union army as colonel of the 33rd Indiana Volunteers. 
In 1865 he became a brevet brigadier general in charge of the 14th and 
20th Corps of tlie Army of the Cumberland. He was judge of the Circuit 
Court of Indiana from 1865 to 1866 and a member of Congress from 1867 
to 1875. He was a member of the Hot Springs Commission from 1877 to 
1879 and a justice of tlie Supreme Court of Montana from 1883 to 1885. He 
died at Indianapolis in 1908. He was president of the Fraternity Conven- 
tion in 1867. 

Andrew McConnei.i, January Cochran, Centre, "73, graduated at tlie 
Harvard Law School in 1877 and became a lawyer. Since 1902 he has 
been United States Circuit Judge for the District of Kentucky. He resides 
at Maysville, Ky. 

LuciAN Howard Cocke, Washington and I>ee, '78, in 1881 he obtained 
his LL. B. at the University of Virginia and has been in practice at 
Roanoke, Va., ever since. Since 1904 he has been general attorney for 
the Norfolk & W^estern Railroad. He is vice president of the National 
Exchange Bank and the South West Virginia Trust Co. He is a trustee 
of Washington and I>ee LTniversity. He was mayor of Roanoke from 1882 
to 1884, and was city solicitor from 1884 to 1888. •I' 13 K. 

*Sterijng R. Cockrii.t,, Washington & I<ee, '69, Cuniberlaiid, '70, served 
during 1864 and 1865 in the Confederate army as sergeant of Tennessee 
Artillery. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and moved to Arkansas. He 
was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas from 1884 to 1901. He 
died at I>ittle Rock, .\rk., in 1901. 

*WiLi.iAM Turner Coogeshai.i., Ohio, '54, was state librarian of Ohio 
from 1856 to 1865. He was a colonel on the staff of Governor Dennison of 
Ohio in 1861-62 and of Governor Cox in 1866. From 1862 to 1865 he was 
editor and proprietor of the Springfield, Ohio, Republic and from 1865 to 
1866 of the Ohio State Journal. In 1866 he was appointed United States 



78 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Minister to Ecuador and died at his post while at Quito, Aug. 2, 1867. 
He was a voluminous writer and was the author of "Signs of the Times," 
"Easy Warren and His Contemporaries," "Oakshaw," "Home Hits and 
Hints," "Poets and Poetry in the West," "Stories of Frontier Adven- 
ture," etc. 

Beverly Waugh Coiner^ Iowa Wesleyan, '79, was mayor of Mt. Pleas- 
ant, Iowa, from 1883 to 1885. He then moved to the State of Washington. 
He was prosecuting attorney of Pierce county for five years. During the 
Spanish war he was a major and paymaster of volunteers. Since 1910 he 
has been chairman of the Washington State Republican Central Commit- 
tee. He is a lawyer and practices at Seattle. 

*Aaron Hodgmak Cole, Colgate, '84, was a graduate student at Johns 
Hopkins in 1889 and attended the University of Chicago at different 
times in 1893, 1896 and 1898. He is an eminent biologist. From 1884 to 
1888 he was an instructor of natural science at the Peddie Institute. From 
1888 to 1892 he was a lecturer in Zoology and Geology at Colgate. From 
1895 to 1906 he was lecturer on Biology in the University of Chicago Ex- 
tension Division and in 1901 was instructor in the technique of biological 
projection and anesthesia of animals at the University of Chicago and 
was also a popular lecturer on bacteriology. He was the inventor of a large 
number of scientific apparatus and methods for highly magnifying on 
screens images of microscopic things. He was a member of a number of 
learned societies and the author of "The Projection Microscope and its 
Use," and "Anesthesia of Animals and Plants," a manual of Biological 
Projections and Anesthesia of Animals." He died in Chicago December 
31, 1913. * B K. 

Alfred Dodge Cole, Brown, '84, studied at Johns Hopkins, Cornell and 
the Universities of Chicago and Berlin. He was instructor and acting pro- 
fessor of Chemistry and Physics at Denison University from 1885 to 1888 
and prQfessor of Physics from 1888 to 1901. He was professor of Physics 
at Ohio State University from 1901 to 1907 and at Vassar College in 1907- 
08. Since 1908 he has been professor of Physics and head of the depart- 
ment at Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science and was secretary of the physics sec- 
tion from 1906 to 1911, and since 1912 has been vice president. He is sec- 
retary of the American Physical Society and chairman of the Physics sec- 
tion of the Ohio Academy of Science. He was a trustee of Denison Univer- 
sity from 1901 to 1907 and since 1911. He is the author of two laboratory 
manuals and numerous research papers in technical and scientific journals. 
He resides at Columbus, Ohio. * B K, 2 SJ. 



SCHUYLER COLFAX 79 

Frank Nelson Coi.e, Harvard, '82, received his Pli. D. degree in 
1886. From 1885 he was a lecturer on Mathematics at Harvard, from 
1888 to 1895 an instructor and assistant professor of Mathematics at the 
University of Michigan, and since 1895 professor of Mathematics at Co- 
lumbia. He has been secretary of the American Mathematical Society 
since 1895 and editor of its journal since 1897. * B K. 

George Fhanki.in Coi.e, Syracuse, "92, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Harvard in 1896. He was for a term professor of French and Ger- 
nian at the Svracuse High School and professor of Mathematics at Nor- 
wich University. He then taught in the Worcester (Mass.) High School. 
Since 1906 he has been professor of French at Dickinson College. He 
resides at Carlisle, Pa. 

Robert Clinton Cole, Dickinson, '79, graduated in law from the Uni- 
versity of Maryland in 1889 and received a Ph. D. degree from Dickinson in 
1891. He was professor of History and Political Science at the Baltimore 
Citv College from 1890 to 1896 and is now president of the Calvert Mort- 
gage and Deposit Company of Baltimore. He is a member of the State 
Board of Education in Maryland. He was the founder of the Johns Hop- 
kins Chapter. 

Frederick Welton Colegrove, Colgate, '82, attended the Baptist 
Theological Seminary at Hamilton, N. Y., in 1883 and 1884, and also 
Clark University, from which he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1898. 
In 1899 he studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg. From 
1884 to 1889 lie was principal of the Marion, N. Y., Collegiate Institute; 
from 1889 to 1892 professor of Latin at Colgate, and from 1892 to 1896 he 
was president of Ottawa University. From 1899 to 1902 he was professor of 
Philosophy at the University of Washington. He is the author of a work 
on "Memory." He resides at Seattle, Wash. He received the degree of 
D. D. from Rochester University in 1893. * B K. 

*ScHUYLER Colfax, DePauw, was initiated as an honorary member 
while a young man. He was a journalist and lecturer. He was editor of 
the St. Joseph Vallev Register from 1845 to 1863. He was a delegate to 
the Whig conventions of 1848 and 18.52, a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of Indiana in 1852 and member of Congress from Indiana from 
1854 to 1869, being speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 
to 1869. He was vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873. 
He died at South Bend, Ind., in 1885. 



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George Lucius Collie, Beloit, '81, graduated from Harvard in 1891 
with a degree of A. M. and received the Ph. D. degree from the same uni- 
versity in 1893. In 1891 and 1892 he was a Fellow at Harvard. Since 1892 
he has been professor of Geology at Beloit and since 1899 dean of the col- 
lege and from 1902 to 1903 and from 1905 to 1908 was acting president of 
the college. He was an assistant on the Wisconsin Geological survey in 
1898. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the 
author of a supplement to "Fry's Geography" and the "Use of Govern- 
mental Maps," "Physiography of Rift Valley, Africa" and many geological 
and educational papers. He resides at Beloit, Wis. $ B K. 

Chester Llewellyn Collins, Iowa Wesleyan, '68, before going to col- 
lege was a soldier in the Union army, having been sergeant in the 47th 
Iowa Volunteer Infantry in 1864 and 1865. He became a lawyer and set- 
tled to practice at Bay City, Mich. He was a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan in 
1878 and 1874. In 1904-05 he was president of the Michigan State Bar As- 
sociation. Since 1905 he has been circuit judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit 
of Michigan. 

Edward Trowbridge Collins, Columbia, '07, is second baseman of the 
Athletic Base Ball club of Philadelphia. He is an authority on base ball, 
an eminent player and has written much on the subject. He resides at 
Landsdowne, Pa. 

*VAR>ruM Daniel Collins, Wabash, "50, graduated from the Union 
Theological Seminary in New York City in 1853 and entered the ministry 
of the Presbyterian church. From 1854 to 1878 he was an agent for the 
American Bible Society and the American and Foreign Christian Union 
in different countries of South America. He also served as pastor of a 
Presbyterian church at Rio Janeiro from 1854 to 1858; of a church at 
Philadelphia, Pa., from 1859 to 1869, and was a missionary at Hong 
Kong from 1869 to 1874. From 18T9 to 1893 he was pastor of the Syden- 
ham church, London, England. He died at Washington, D. C, in 1900. 

Herbert William Conn, Boston, '81, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Johns Hopkins in 1884. He was instructor in Biology from 1884 
to 1886, assistant professor in the same subject from 1886 to 1888 and 
since 1889 a professor of Biology at Wesleyan University. He is a spe- 
cialist on the bacteriology of dairy products. He has been a director of 
the Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory and bacteriologist of the 
Storrs Experimental Station and director of the laboratory of the Con- 




STANLEY COULTER 
Hanover '71 




JOHN I. COVINGTON 
Miami '70 



STEPHEN MORTIMER COON 81 

necticut State Board of Health. He is a member of the commission of 
milk standards. He was for some years a lecturer of Biology at Trinity. 
He was organizer of the American Society of Bacteriologists and its pres- 
ident in 1903. He is the author of "Evolution of To-day," "The Living 
World," "The Story of Germ Life," "The Story of the Living Machine," 
"The Method of Evolution," "Agricultural Bacteriology," and "An Ele- 
mentary Physiology and Hygiene for use in Schools," "Bacteria in Milk," 
and "Bacteria Yeasts and Molds in the Home." He was the pioneer in 
America in the study and development of Dairy Bacteriology. He resides 
at Middletown, Conn. 4> B K. 

Frederic Kikg Coxover, Wisconsin, '78, has been editor of the Wis- 
consin Reports from 1883 to date.- The reports edited by him comprise one 
hundred volumes and aggregate over seventy-five thousand pages of legal 
decisions. He is also a curator of the Wisconsin State Historical Society 
and for twenty-four years was a director of the Madison, Wisconsin, Free 
Library. 

Frank Hexry Coxstaxt, Cincinnati, '91, in 189.5 became assistant 
professor and since 1897 has been professor of Structural Engineering at 
the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- 
tion and is chairman of the Committee on Bridges and Viaducts of the 
Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association. 2 S. 

Frederick Washington Cook, Indiana, '81, Wabash, '84, is president 
of the San Antonio Drug Company, San Antonio, Texas. He is president 
of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and one of the regents of the 
University of Texas. 

George Anderson Cooke, Knox, '92, became a lawyer and has since re- 
sided at Aledo, 111. From 1902 to 1906 he was a member of the Illinois Leg- 
islature and in 1909 was elected a judge of the Illinois Supreme Court to 
fill a vacancy, and in 1912 was re-elected for a full term of nine years. 

*Stephen Mortimer Coon, Syracuse, "70, graduated from Rochester 
in 1870 and in law from Hamilton in 1873. From 1873 to 1913 he practiced 
law at Oswego, N. Y. He was interested in many public enterprises; he 
was trustee of the Oswego Savings Bank, treasurer of the Oswego Canal 
Co., and president of the Oswego Dock Co., trustee of the State Normal 
School and the Hospital for the Insane. He was also at times district 
attorney and V. S. district attorney and corporation counsel of Oswego. 
Hf- was a member of the New York legislature in 1888-9. From 1898 to 



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1913 he was lecturer on International Law at the University of Syracuse. 
He died at Oswego April 9, 1913. 

*Williajm Henry Corwin, Miami, '49, did not graduate at Miami, but 
took his A. B. degree at Denison. He then studied law and graduated 
from the Cincinnati Law School in 1853. He practiced law for a time, but 
in 1861 became secretary of the United States legation at the City of 
Mexico and in 1864 was made charge d' affairs, a position which he held 
until 1866. He then returned to the United States and studied medicine, 
graduating at the Philadelphia Homeopathic College in 1870. He died at 
Lebanon, Ohio, March 12, 1880. 

John Hazelton Cotteral, Michigan, '87, soon after leaving the Uni- 
versity began the practice of law at Garden City, Kan., and in 1889 moved 
to Guthrie, Okla., where he has since resided. In 1901 he was elected 
president of the Oklahoma Bar Association. In 1904 he was chairman of 
the delegation from Oklahoma to the Republican National Convention and 
in 1907 was given the Republican nomination for the Supreme Bench of 
Oklahoma. In November of that year he received the unsolicited ap- 
pointment from President Roosevelt of United States District judge for 
the Western District of Oklahoma. 

Ernest Kent Coulter, Ohio State, '90, is a lawyer practicing in New 
York City. For a number of years he was chief clerk of the New York 
County Children's Court. He was the founder of the so-called "Big 
Brother Movement." He is the author of "The Children in the Shadow," a 
book dealing with the condition of the children in the slums of great 
cities. 

Stanley Coulter, Hanover, '71, received his A. B. in 1871, Ph. D. in 
1887, and LL. D. in 1906. He has been director of the Biological Labora- 
tories at Purdue since 1887, and dean of the School of Science since 1906. 
He is also a member of the Indiana Board of Forestry. He is a prolific 
author on scientific and educational topics. He is the author of "Flora of 
Indiana," "Forest Trees of Indiana," "Wood-lot Management," "September 
Plant Studies," etc. In 1893 he was lecturer on plant life at the sum- 
mer school of the University of Wisconsin, and from 1903 to 1908 at Cor- 
nell. He is a member of a number of learned and educational societies. 

*JoiiN IcHABon Covington, Miami, '70, was an insurance specialist. 
From 1870 to 1876 he was secretary of the Globe Insurance Company at 



WILLIAM VAN ZANDT COX 83 

Cincinnati; from 187() to 1883 superintendent of the Insurance Adjust- 
ment Co.; from 1885 to 1892 manager of the Insurance Department of 
the American Cotton Oil Trust, and from 1892 to 1902 organizer of many 
mutual insurance organizations in different industries. His services to the 
Fraternity were numerous and important. He was editor of the Beta 
Theta Pi from 1878 to 1882 and general treasurer from 1872 to 1873 and 1881 
to 1891. He was a member of the board of directors from 1879 to 1892 
and of the board of trustees from 1892 to 1895. He was also at times arch- 
ivist and chief of several districts. He died at New York City in 1895. The 
corporation which holds title to the property of the Yale Chapter is called 
the "Covington Trust Association" in honor of his memory. 

*Ali,en Trimble Cowex, Ohio Wesleyan, '55, graduated from the 
Cincinnati Law School in 1858 and was admitted to the bar. From 1859 to 
1863 he was prosecuting attorney of Clermont county. 111. From 1867 to 
1873 he was probate judge, and from 1876 to 1888 judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas at Batavia, Ohio. He died at Batavia June 21, 1892. 

WiLLiAar Strother Cowherd, Missouri, '81, graduated from the law de- 
partment in 1882, and entered upon the practice of law at Kansas City, Mo. 
From 1885 to 1889 he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson county. 
He was mayor of Kansas City from 1892 to 1894 and was a member of 
Congress from 1897 to 1905. In 1908 he was the unsuccessful candidate for 
governor of Missouri of the Democratic party. He resides in Kansas City. 

George Clarke Cox, Kenyon, '86, received a master's degree from 
Harvard in 1908 and a Ph. D. degree from the same university in 1910. 
He is professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College, and has been a fre- 
quent contributor to the periodicals devoted to that subject. He resides 
at Hanover, N. H. <i> B K. 

William Vax Zaxdt Cox, Ohio Wesleyan, '74., resides at Washington, 
D. C. From 1897 to 1902 he was on the executive staff of the United Stater. 
National Museum and was its financial officer at a number of the world's 
fairs. In 1883 he was secretary of the International Fisheries Exposition at 
Ivondon. He is president of the Second National Bank and of the Wash- 
ington Board of Trade and Board of Education in tiie District of Columbia. 
He is a member of the Currency Commission and Executive Council of the 
American Bankers' Association and is the governor of the Society of Co- 
lonial Wars, D. C, and vice president of the Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, D. C. He has written a number of books, among others: "The Great 
Northwest," "Origin and History of Bilingsgate Market, lyOndon," "Life of 



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Samuel Sullivan Cox," "Memorial of Matthew Gault Emery," "When Lin- 
coln was Under Fire," "Defenses of Washington," "The Return of Admiral 
Dewey," "The Historic Potomac," "The National Capital Centennial," "Sou- 
venir Volume American Bankers' Association, 1905." <l> B K. 

*JoHN Newton Chaig, Virginia, '56, graduated at Washington-Lee in 
1853 and received his Master's degree from that institution in 1856. After 
leaving the University of Virginia he attended the Presbyterian Theo- 
logical Seminary at Hampden-Sidney, Va., for two years and then the 
Seminary at Columbia, S. C, and graduating from there in 1859 entered the 
Presbyterian church. From 1861 to 1865 he was a chaplain in the Con- 
federate army. From 1865 to 1870 he was pastor of a Presbyterian 
church at Lancaster, S. C; from 1870 to 1883 at Holly Springs, Miss., and 
from 1883 to 1900 he was secretary of the Board of Home Missions of the 
Southern Presbyterian church. He was a trustee of Davidson College from 
1867 to 1870, and of the Southwestern Presbyterian University from 1880 
to 1888. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Missis- 
sippi in 1877. He died at Atlanta, Ga., in 1900. 

Frost Craft, DePauw, '70, is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. He was pastor at Indianapolis from 1874 to 1875; at Fort 
Wayne from 1875 to 1878; at Noblesville from 1878 to 1882; at Richmond, 
Ind., from 1882 to 1885, and at other charges in Indiana and Illinois until 
1901. He was pastor of the Trinity M. E. church at Denver from 1901 to 
1904; the Capitol Hill church of Denver from 1904 to 1910 and since 1910 
has been at the University church of Denver. He is a lecturer on so- 
ciology at the University of Denver and a trustee of that University. 
DePauw University gave him the degree of D. D. in 1888. ^ B K. 

William Bayard Craig, Iowa, '72, graduated at the Yale Divinity 
School in 1874 and entered the ministry of the Disciples church. He has 
been pastor of churches at Iowa City, 1876-82, Denver, 1882-94, San An- 
tonio, Texas, 1892-6, Denver, 1902-7, the Lennox Avenue Union Church, New 
York City, and since 1911 at Redlands, Cal. From 1896 to 1902 he was 
chancellor of Drake University. He received the degree of D. D. from the 
University of Colorado in 1893 and LL. D. from Drake University in 1896. 
He has delivered lectures on "Education in the Appreciation of Art." 

Louis Burton Crane, Knox, '91, left college before graduation and 
went to Princeton, where he graduated in 1891. He graduated at the 
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1894. After taking post graduate 
work at Princeton, he went to Europe and studied at the Universities of 




WM. S. COWHERD 
Missouri '81 




GEORGE W. CROMER 
Indiana '82 



WILLIAM BEX CRAVE XS 85 

Berlin, Erlangen and Giessen. Returning to the United States he entered 
upon the active ministry of the Presbyterian church and was pastor of 
churches at Princeton, N. J., and Buffalo, N. Y. From 1902 to 1905 he 
was professor of New Testament Literature and Interpretation at the 
Chicago Theological Seminary. From 1906 to 1910 he was pastor of the 
Brainerd Union Presbyterian church at Easton, Pa., and since 1910 of the 
Westminster Presbyterian church at Elizabeth, N. J. He is the author of 
-"The Teachings of Jesus Concerning the Holy Spirit," and of the Inter- 
mediate Graded Sunday School Lessons. 

Earl Cranston, Ohio, '61, entered the Union army as a private immed- 
iately after his graduation and served until 1864, attaining the rank of 
captain. In 1867 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church 
and served as pastor of churches at Marietta. Portsmouth, and Columbus, 
Ohio, Winona, Minn., Jacksonville, 111., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Denver. From 
1880 to 1884 he was a presiding elder. From 1884 to 1896 he was stationed 
at Cincinnati as one of the publishing agents of the Methodist Book Con- 
cern. In 1896 he was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and resides at Washington, D. C. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
Ohio in 1897 and D. D. from Allegheny in 1882 and Cornell (Iowa) in 1883. 
He was the poet of the Fraternity convention of 1873. 

Earl Montgomery Cranston, Denver, '85, graduated from the Cin- 
cinnati Law School in 1886 and began the practice of law at Denver. From 
1889 to 1891 he was a member of the Legislature of Colorado. From 1891 
to 1893 he was county attorney for Arapahoe County. From 1899 to 1905 
he was United States district attorney. He resides at Denver. 

♦Benjamin Franklin Crary, DePauw, '55, left college before grad- 
uation, but was given the degree of A. M. in 1867. From 1857 to 1861 he 
was president of Hamline University, Minn., and then became for a year 
superintendent of public instruction for the State of Minnesota. During 
1862 and 1863 he was chaplain of the 3rd Minnesota Volunteers, United 
States army. He then entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
church and was an editor of the Central Christian Advocate until 1872. 
In 1880 he moved to California and was appointed editor of the Cali- 
fornia Christian Advocate in 1883, serving until his death in 1895. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Iowa Wesleyan in 1859 and the Uni- 
versity of Indiana in 1865. He was a trustee of DePauw University from 
1852 to 1857. 

(William) Ben Cravens, Missouri, '93, graduated from the law depart- 
ment and being admitted to the bar, began practice at Fort Smith, Ark. 



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He was city attorney of Ft. Smith for four years, and prosecuting attorney 
for the 12th Judicial District of Arkansas for six years. He has been a 
member of Congress since 1907. 

George Artemas Crawford^ Boston, '78^ received the degree of Ph. D. 
in 1887 and S. T. D. in 1890. He entered the ministry of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and was for a long time a chaplain in the navy stationed 
at the Boston Navy Yard. After his retirement for disability, incurred in 
the line of duty, he re-entered the active ministry of the church and served 
for some time as pastor of city churches, rebuilding them from a decaying 
condition to prosperity. He is now a chaplain at the Massachusetts State 
Penitentiary. He is a member of many patriotic societies. 

Howard Tribou Crawford^ Boston, '96, is an osteopath and has been 
professor of Anatomy at the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy since 
1899 and dean of the college since 1905. 

Thomas Dwight Crawford^ Virginia, '84, took his college course at 
Davidson College where he obtained his A. B. degree in 1882. He grad- 
uated at the University of Virginia with the degree of LL. B. He began 
to practice law in Arkansas. He was assistant attorney general of Ar- 
kansas from 1889 to 1890 and was reporter of the supreme court of Ar- 
kansas from 1890 to 1913. He is now assistant attorney for the St. L., 
I., M. & S. Ry. Co. He is the editor of the Arkansas reports, 52 volumes 
from 1891 to 1913. He resides at Little Rock, Ark. 

William Henry Crawshaw, Colgate, '87, was instructor in English 
and elocution at Colgate from 1887 to 1889; associate professor from 
1889 to 1893 and professor of English Literature since 1898 and dean of 
the college since 1897. He was acting president of the college from 1897 
to 1899; in 1907 and in 1908 he was president pro tempore to 1909. He 
is the author of the "Interpretation of Literature," "Dryden's Palamon 
and Arcite," "Literary Interpretation of Life" and "The Making of 
English Literature." He resides at Hamilton, N. Y. He received the 
degree of Litt. D. from the University of Rochester in 1909 and LL. D. 
from Syracuse in 1910. He is a member of a number of learned societies. 
4>BK. 

*Thomas Theodore Crittekdex, Central, '55, studied law after his 
graduation and began the practice of law at Kansas City, Mo. At the out- 
break of the war he entered the Union army and became colonel of the 7th 
Missouri Cavalry. From 1871 to 1872 he was attorney general of Missouri. 
From 1877 to 1881 he was a member of Congress and from 1881 to 1885 



WALTER WILSON CROSBY 87 

governor of Missouri. From 1893 to 1897 lie was United States consul at 
the City of Mexico. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University 
of Missouri in 1881. He died at Kansas City in 1909. 

Frank Heabxe Crockaud, Lehigh, '96, became a metallurgist. He is 
vice president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. and resides at Birming- 
ham, Ala. 

George Washington Cromer, Indiana, '82, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Muncie, Ind. From 1886 to 1890 he was prosecuting 
attorney. In 1894 he was mayor of Muncie and from 1899 to 1907 was a 
member of Congress. He is now practicing law and resides at Muncie, 
Ind. 

Isaac Crook, Ohio Wesleyan, '59, entered the ministry of the Methodist 
Episcopal church in 1864 and for some twenty-five years was pastor of 
different churches in the middle west states. In 1891 and 1892 he was 
president of the University of the Pacific; from 1892 to 1896 of Nebraska 
Wesleyan University, and from 1896 to 1898 of Ohio University. From 1902^ 
to 1908 he was presiding elder of the Chillicothe District of the Ohio Con- 
ference. He was a delegate to the Ecunmenical Conference held at Edin- 
burgh in 1910. He is the author of "A Life of Hon. C. C. White," "Life of 
Jimathan Edwards," "John Knox," "Earnest Expectation," etc. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Cornell College in 1875 and LL. D. from Nebraska 
Wesleyan in 1896. He resides at Spokane, Wash. 4> B K. 

*Cicero Stephens Croobi, North Carolina, '59, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1861. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted as a 
private in the 11th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate army and was 
promoted through successive ranks until he became a major and assistant 
adjutant general on the staff of General Forney. After the war he was 
engaged in the practice of law at Mobile, Ala. He was one of the members 
of the commission to adjust the debt of Mobile and of the state of Ala- 
bama and was city attorney of Mobile from 1875 to 1877. He died in 1884. 

Chari.es Noil Crosby, Western Reserve, '97, resides at Linesville, Pa. 
He is president and general manager of the International Silo Company. 
He is also president of the Eastern Silo Manufacturers' Association. 

Walter Wilson Crosby, Maine, '93, received the degree of C. E. from 
the University of Maine in 1896, and was engaged in railway and general en- 
gineering work from 1893 to 1897. In 1897 he was chief engineer of the 
Hancock Construction Company of Boston, engaged in electrical railway 



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construction. He was resident engineer in various parts of Massachusetts 
for the Massachusetts Highway Commission from 1897 to 1901, an engineer 
of roads for Baltimore, Maryland, from 1901 to 1904, general superintend- 
ent of the Board of Parks Commissioners of Baltimore in 1904-05, chief 
engineer of the Maryland Geological and Economical Survey in 1905, and 
chief engineer of the Maryland State Roads Commission from 1908 to 1912, 
when he resigned to enter private practice as a consulting engineer. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. Sc. from Maryland State College in 1912. While in 
college he became major and cadet commandant of the corps of cadets of 
the University of Maine, and remaining interested in military matters, is 
major and inspector general of the First Brigade of the Maryland National 
Guard. He was vice president of the International Road Congress held at 
Brussells in 1910, and at London in 1913. He is a member of many profes- 
sional societies and the author of many oflFicial reports and technical publi- 
cations. He is treasurer of the American Road Builders' Association, and 
non-resident lecturer on Highway Engineering at Columbia. He resides at 
Buffalo, N. Y. #K*. 

William Dorr Crosby, Beloit, '79, graduated in medicine from Colum- 
bia in 1882 and entered the army. He is now a major and stationed at the 
Soldiers' Home at Washington, D. C. 

Enoch Herbert Crowder, Missouri, '8fi, graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1881 and from the law department of the 
University of Missouri in 1886. He entered the army in 1881 as a 2nd 
lieutenant in the 8th Cavalry. He was on recruiting duty at the Jefferson 
Barracks in 1884 and 1885 and on college duty at the University of Mis- 
souri in 1885 and 1886. He was in the field in New Mexico operating 
against the Apache Indians from 1886 and again on college duty from 
1886 to 1889. In 1890 and 1891 he was in the field operating against the 
Sioux Indians. In 1898 he became judge advocate of the department of 
the Platte and later in the same year judge advocate of the first inde- 
pendent division of the army. He sailed for Manila in June, 1898, and be- 
came judge advocate of the department of the Pacific. While in the 
Philippines he was associate justice of the Supreme Court, judge advocate 
of the division of the Philippines, and secretary to the military governor 
of the Philippines. He then returned to the United States and was judge 
advocate of the department of the I>akes in 1901 and 1902 on duty in 
the office of the judge advocate in Washington; from 1902 to 1903, and 
since 1903 has been assigned to the general staff of the War Depart- 
ment with the rank of brigadier general. In 1904 and 1905 he was sen- 




WAI/rER W. CROSBY 
Maine '93 




LEE CRUCE 
VanderbJlt, '86 



JOSEPH ALBERTUS CULLER 89 

ior military attache with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He was act- 
ing secretary of state and attorney general and president of the Advisory 
Commission in Cuba from 1906 to 1909. He was delegate to the Fourtli 
Pan American Conference in 1910 and envoy extraordinary and minister 
plenipotentiary to Chili in September, 1910, and to Cuba in May, 1913. 
While in the Philippines he prepared the Code of Criminal Proceedure 
now in force and many laws and regulations. While in Cuba he was en- 
gaged in the preparation of many of the laws of the island, and was 
supervisor of the nuuiici])al and presidential elections in 1908. He re- 
ceived the degree of lA,. D. from Missouri in 1914. 

*JoH]sr FiNi.EY Crowe, Hanover, was an honorary member of the 
Chapter, having been initiated in 1853. He received the degree of A. M. from 
Transylvania in 1833 and graduated from the Princeton Theological Semin- 
ary and became a Presbyterian minister. He was the founder of Hanover 
College and was its vice president, one of its tr>istees and professor of 
Rhetoric, Logic, Political Economy and History from 1832 to 1860. He died 
at Hanover, Ind., Jan. 17, 1860. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Miami in 1836. 

Lee Cruce, Vanderbilt, '86, studied law after leaving college and began 
its practice in Kentucky. In 1891 he moved to Ardmore, Okla., and in 1901 
with others organized the Ardmore National Bank and became its cashier. 
Two years later he was made its president and he retained that position 
until January, 1910. In 1907 he was a candidate for governor of Oklahoma, 
but was defeated. In 1911 he ran again and was elected. He was also presi- 
dent of the board of regents of tlie State University until he became gov- 
ernor. He resides at Ardmore, Okla. 

Hexry Coe Cn.BERTsoN, Cincinnati, '95, studied law at Columbia 
from 1896 to 1898, and theology at the University of Chicago, graduating 
from the latter with the degree of B. D. in 1900. He was ordained a 
minister of the Presbyterian church in 1902 and became pastor of a 
church at lola, Kansas. In 1907 he became president of the College of 
Emporia, Kan. In 1910 he receivetl the degree of D. D. from Lenox 
College, Iowa. 

Joseph Ai.berti^s Culler, Wooster, '84, was principal of the high 
school at Kenton, Ohio, from 1885 to 1900; superintendent of schools of 
Kenton and Bowling Green from 1900 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been 
professor of Physics at Miami University. He is the author of several 
text books. He received a Ph. D. degree from Wooster in 1900. He 
resides at Oxford, Ohio. 



90 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*Wii.r,iAM CuMBACK, DcPauw, '50, Miami, '50, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar. From 1855 to 1857 he was a member of Congress 
from Indiana. He was a presidential elector in 1860. He was a pay- 
master in the Union army from 1861 to 1865 and was lieuteant-colonel of 
the 13th Indiana ^'^ohlnteers. He was a member of the State Senate of 
Indiana from 1865 to 1867 and its presiding officer from 1866 to 1867. He 
was lieutenant-governor of Indiana from 1868 to 1871. In 1870 he was 
appointed United States minister to Portugal. From 1871 to 1883 he was 
United States collector of internal revenue. He was a popular lecturer 
for many years. He was a trustee of DePauw from 1858 to 1861 and 1873 
to 1905. He received the degree of A. M. from Miami in 1866 and LL. D. 
from DePauw in 1881. He was president of the Fraternity convention of 
1882. He died at Greensburg, Ind., in 1905. , 

Joseph Bryan Gumming, Georgia, '54, graduated from the Harvard 
Law School in 1856. During the Civil war he became colonel of the 18th 
Georgia Infantry. He was a member of the Georgia Legislature fi-om 1871 
to 1872 and speaker of the House from 1872 to 1874. He was in the State 
Senate in 1878-79. He is a corporation specialist and general counsel for 
the Georgia R. R. He resides at Augusta, Ga. 

*Edward Hao. Cunningham, Cumberland, '55, entered the Confed- 
erate army in 1861 as captain of the Fourth Texas Infantry. In 1862 he 
became a colonel and inspector general on the staff of Gen. J. B. Hood, 
and later on the staff of Stephen E. Lee, and served until the end of the 
war. After the war he became a sugar planter at Sugerland, Texas. He 
died Aug. 27, 1911. 

*William Theodore Cunningham, DePauw, '50, became a. merchant 
and settled at Oswego, Kan. During -the war he was first a captain and 
afterwards major in the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. 
He was at one time treasurer of Marion County, Iowa. He died in 1883 
at Pittsburgh, Kan. 

*Manley Bowie Curry, Richmond, '79, Virginia, '80, was for a time 
engaged in the life insurance business and for a number of years was 
manager of the Georgia Bankers Life Association. He then entered the 
United States aj-my as a paymaster and rose to the rank of major, being 
assigned to the Department of the Gulf. He was accidentally killed in 
1907. He resided at Macon, Ga. 

Harry Ai.onzo Cushtng, Amherst, '91, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Columbia in 1896 and LL. B. in 1901, and was admitted to the bar in 



JOHN PEARSOXS crSHlXG 91 

llie latter year and lias since practiced in New York City. From 1901 to 
1903 he was a lecturer in History and Constitutional I^aw at Columbia and 
from 1907 to 1909 was professor of Law at Columbia and acting dean of 
the Law School. He is the author of "A History of the Transition from the 
Provincial to the Commonwealth Government in Massachusetts," and the 
editor of the "Writings of Samuel Adams" and has been a contributor to 
the International Encyclopedia. He is secretary of the New England So- 
ciety of New York and an editor of the Amherst Graduate Quarferl}/. 

Jonx Pearsoxs Cusuing, Boston, '82, left college and went to Amherst, 
where he graduated in 1882. From 1882 to 1890 he was principal of the 
Holyoke high school. He then studied in Europe and received the degree 
of Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig in 1894. From 1894 to 1900 he 
was professor of Economics and History at Knox College. Since 1900 he 
has been head master of the high sciiool at New Haven, Conn. 



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*RoBERT Dabney, Hampden-Sidnej', '51, attended the University of 
Virginia from 1851 to 1852, taking his Master's degree there. He then be- 
came a teacher at different academies in Virginia. In 1861 he entered the 
4th Virginia cavalry in the Confederate army as a private and served for 
a year. He was a member of the Virginia I>egislature from 1862 to 1864. He 
was occupied between 1866 and 1876 very largely as a lecturer on subjects 
relating to Shakespeare. From 1868 to 1874 he was professor of Metaphy- 
sics at the University of the South and from 1874 to 1876 of History and 
Literature at the same university. He died at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1876. He 
received the degree of IX. D. from William and Mary College in 1875. 

JoHX Chaljiers Da Costa, Pennsylvania, '82, graduated from the 
Jefferson Medical College in 1885. From 1885 to 1887 he was a physician 
in the insane department of the Philadelphia Hospital and a demonstrator 
in Anatomy at the Jefferson Medical College. From 1887 to 1891 he was a 
demonstrator of surgery at the Jefferson Medical College, and since 1900 
has been professor of Surgery at that institution. He is surgeon to the Phil- 
adelphia Hospital, and St. Joseph Hospital. He is the author of a "Manual 
of Modern Surgery," and has edited the English Edition of "Zuckerhandl's 
Operative Surgery," and the latest edition of "Grey's Anatomy." He resides 
in Philadelphia. 

*WiLLiAM Mitchell Daily, DePauw, was an honorary member of the 
DePauw Chapter. He graduated from the University of Indiana in 1836. 
He was chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1844 
and 1845. From 1853 to 1859 he was president of the University of Indi- 
ana. During the war he was a chaplain in the Union army. After the war 
he was for a time a special agent for the government in the mail service. 
In 1869 he resumed his active duties as a pastor in the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. He died at New Orleans Feb. 6, 1877. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from DePauw and that of EL. D. from the University of 
Louisville. 

Jay Norwood Darlixg, Beloit, '00, became, after graduation, a re- 
porter on the Sioux City Tribune and Sioux City Journal. He was car- 
toonist for the Ref/i.ifer and Leader of Des Moines, Iowa, from 1901 to 
1911, and was cartoonist for the New York Globe from 1911 to 1913, when 

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94 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

he returned to the Register and Leader. He is considered to be one of 
the best of the cartoonists of the country, and is known as "J. S. Ding." 
He resides at Des Moines, Iowa. 

Levi Travers Dashiell, Texas, '90, is a lawyer and is practicing in 
Austin, Texas. He was a member of the Texas Legislature from 1892 to 
1894 and was at one time seci-etary of state. 

*WiLLiAM Clarence Davidson, DePauw, '76, entered the ministry of 
the Methodist Episcopal church and from 1877 to 1884 was a missionary in 
Japan. From 1881 to 1883 he was United States consul at Hakodate. For 
years he engaged in literary work in Japan and prepared and published 
an epitome of Old Testament history in Japanese entitled, "Kiyu-shin-yakee 
Seisho". From 1894 until 1903 he was professor of Comparative Religion 
at the Folts Mission Institute. He died at Steuben, N. Y., in 1903. 

John Francis Davis, California, '83, graduated from Harvard in 1881 
and from the Hastings College of Law in 1884. He was judge of the Su- 
perior Court of Amador County, California, from 1892 to 1895, and a mem- 
ber of the California Senate from 1898 to 1902. He was the Code Commis- 
sioner of the State of California from 1903 to 1907. He is practicing law 
and resides in San Francisco. 

Webster William Davis, Kansas, '88, prior to studying at the Uni- 
versity of Kansas spent some time at Lake Forest University. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1886 and then attended the Law Department 
of the University of Michigan, and afterwards practiced law at Kansas 
City, Mo. He was nominated for Congress in 1892, but was defeated. He 
was mayor of Kansas City from 1894 to 1896, and assistant secretary of 
the Interior from 1897 to 1900. He resides at Los Angeles, Cal. 

William Blackford Davis, Virginia, '68, is a surgeon in the United 
States army with the rank of colonel. He entered the navy as a surgeon in 
1871, but resigned in 1877 and entered the army, where he has since re- 
mained. His address is care of the adjutant general. War Department. 
Washington, D. C. 

*WiLLiAM Cathcart Day, Johus Hopkins, '80, studied in Germany 
and then took special studies at Johns Hopkins, receiving his Ph. D. 
degree in 1883. From 1885 to 1889, he was special agent of the United 
States Geological Survey and in 1889 and 1890 had charge of the statis- 
tics relating to stones in the Census Bureau. From 1887 to 1890 he was 
professor of Chemistry at the Peabody Normal College. From 1890 to 
1905 he was professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore. He died in 1905. He 
was a voluminous contributor to the technical journals.. 




LEVI T. DASHIEI.L, 
Texas '90 




WEBSTER W. DAVIS 
Kansas '88 



JAMES LEON DE FREMERY 95 

*James Albert Deax, Hanover, '64, studied at the Columbia School 
of Mines receiving a Ph. D. degree in 1879, and became a mining engineer. 
He was professor of Paleontology at tlie Columbia School of Mines from 
1877 to 1882. He died at Denver in 1902. 

*WiLLiAM Wirt Dedrick, Michigan, '61, entered the Union army after 
his graduation as a first lieutenant of the Michigan Lancers and served for 
a year. He then returned to college and graduated from the law school in 
1864. After the war he moved to Vicksburg, Miss., and in 1873 was presi- 
dent of its Board of Aldermen. From 1873 to 187-5 he was county attorney 
of Warren County, Miss. From 1875 to 1876 he was adjutant-general of 
Mississippi. From 1876 to 1881 he was United States district attorney for 
the Southern District of Mississippi. He was author of "Codification of 
Laws and Ordinances of Vicksburg." In 1881 he moved to Washington as 
one of tlie counsel for tiie Frencii and American claims commission and 
served until 1884. He was one of the trustees of Alcorn University and 
cliairman of its executive committee. From 1884 to 1897 he practiced law 
at Washington, D. C. He died May 11, 1897. 

Edward Andrew Deeds, Denison, '97, after graduation became an 
employe of the Tresher Electric Company at Dayton, Ohio. Shortly after- 
wards he entered the maintenance department of the National Cash Reg- 
ister Co. He then became factory manager of the Siiredded AViieat Co. at 
Niagara Falls, where he remained for three years. He tlien returned to 
the National Casli Register Co. and was gradually advanced until now he 
is vice president of the company and general manager of the business. He 
is the founder, lialf owner and president of the Dayton Engineering Lab- 
oratories Company. 

Luther Mariax Defoe, Missouri, '91, studied at Harvard after his 
graduation, and then returned to his Alma Mater to teacli. He is pro- 
fessor of the Mechanics of Engineering at the University of Missouri and 
resides at Columbia, Mo. 

*James Leox de Fremery, California, '82, attended the University of 
Strassburg from 1883 to 1884 and other universities in Germany and re- 
ceived the degree of Ph. D. from Heidelberg in 1886. He engaged in busi- 
ness in New York City and was interested in many industrial enterprises. 
He was president of the Niagara Mining Co., the Maxwell City Develop- 
ment Co. and the American I>ucol Co. He subsequently moved to Oakland, 
Cal., where he succeeded his father as senior member of the San Francisco 
firm of James de Fremery & Co. He was one of the trustees of the Fra- 
ternity from 1895 to 1897. He died in 1911, 



96 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*Mark Lixdsey DeMotte^ DePauw, '53, studied law after his grad- 
uation and began to practice at Valparaiso, Ind. From 1856 to 1858 he 
was prosecuting attorney for the 31st Indiana District. At the beginning 
of the war he became a lieutenant of artillery in the 4th Indiana Battery. 
In 1862 he became captain and quartermaster and served as such through 
the war. In 1866 he moved to Lexington, Mo., and edited the Register, 
published at that place until 1876, when he returned to Indiana. While 
he was in Missouri he ran for Congress on the Republican ticket in 1872, 
1874 and 1876, but was defeated. In 1879 he became professor of law in 
the Northern Indiana Normal School, a position which he held until his 
death, which took place in 1908. From 1881 to 1883 he w'as a member of 
Congress and from 1886 to 1890 of the Senate of Indiana. 

*WiLLiAM HoLMAN De Motte, DcPauw, '49, graduated as salutator- 
ian of his class. He devoted his life to the education of the deaf. From 
1850 to 1864 he was a professor in the Indiana Institute for the Deaf and 
Dumb. In 1864 and 1865 he was Indiana State Military Agent at Wash- 
ington. From 1865 to 1868 he was president of the Indiana Female Col- 
lege and from 1868 to 1875 of the Illinois Female College. From 1875 to 
1880 he was superintendent of the Wisconsin Scliool for the Deaf, and 
from 1880 to 1882 of the Kansas School for the Deaf. He was president 
of Xenia College from 1882 to 1887 and from 1887 to 1911 was a professor 
in the Indiana Institute for the Deaf. He died at Indianapolis in 1911. 
For many years he was editor of The Silent Educator. He received the 
degree of LL. D. from Lawrence University in 1878. 

Walter Emehson Dennisox, Ohio Wesleyan, '77, became a mining and 
civil engineer. From 1884 to 1887 he was state guardian of the Yosemite 
Valley Reservation in California. From 1891 to 1894 he was secretary of the 
City Street Improvement Company of San Francisco, Cal. From 1893 to 1899 
he was constructor of the Jetty system at Humbolt Bay, Cal, and from 1907 
to 1911 was state harbor commissioner for the Bay of San Francisco. Since 
1911 he has been president of the Steiger Terra Cotta and Pottery Works. 
He has been a vice president of the National Terra Cotta Society since its 
organization in 1911 and president of the Western Division of the same. 
In 1879 and 1880 he was business manager of the Beta Theta Pi and in 1879 
was secretary of the Fraternity convention and suggested the present Fra- 
ternity colors. He resides at San Francisco. 

Hiram Dei.os Densmore, Beloit, '86, received his M. A. degree from 
Cornell in 1889. Since 1889 he has been professor of Botany at Beloit and 



JOHX LI X DSL AY DICKEY 97 

has been curator of tlie Museum ami Registrar of the college. He is the 
author of "Polar Caps aiul Sjiiudles iu Suillaciua." 2 S. 

*Emii, Alexander de Schweixitz, ^'irgiuia, '83, graduated from the 
University of North Carolina in 1882. After attending the University of 
A'^irginia he studied in Germany and received the degree of Ph. D. from the 
University of Gottingen. He returned to the United States and received 
the degree of M. D. from the Columbian University at Washington. He 
was an eminent chemist and bacteriologist and made many original and 
im])ortant investigations into the causes of diseases. From 1889 to 1904 he 
was director of the Biochemical laboratory of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture and was professor of Chemistry at and dean of the 
medical department of Columbian University. He was the representative 
of the United States at the International Congress on Tuberculosis at 
Paris in 1898 and Berlin in 1899 and of the International Congress for 
Hygiene at Paris in 1900. He died at Washington in 1904. 

*'riio.'MAS Jeffehsox Devixe, Transylvania, '43, graduated witli the 
degree of LL. B. and moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he began to 
practice law. From 184.5 to 1851 he was city attorney of San Antonio. 
From 1851 to 1861 he was judge of the District Court and in 1861 was 
appointed Confederate States Judge for the Western District of Texas. 
From 1874 to 1876 he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He 
died at San Antonio April 24th, 1890. 

RrssEi.i. Sedwick Devoi,, Oiiio, '70, was ]irofess()r of Mathematics at 
Ohio University from 1873 to 1883, and of Mathematics at Kenyon Col- 
lege from 1883 to 1896. Since 1896 he has been ])rofess()r of History at 
Kenyon. 

John Lixdsi.ay Dickey, Washington and Jefl'erson, '76, graduated in 
medicine at the Jeiferson Medical College in 1883. He is a prominent phy- 
sician and resides at Wheeling, W. Va. From 1876 to 1880 he was vice 
principal of the Linsly Institute. He is surgeon at a number of hospitals. 
He was a member of the State lioard of Health from 1903 to 1911; was 
president of the State Medical Society; was a member of the International 
Medical Congresses of 1887, 1890, 1894, 1906 and 1909; was examiner for 
many life insurance companies. He has been ]M-esident of the Y. M. C. A. 
since 1902, director of the National Exchange Bank, the Security Trust 
Company, State Bank of Elm Grove and the Fostoria Glass Company. He 
is a member of many learned societies. 



98 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Clarence Dickinson, Northwestern, '94, is a musician. After leav- 
ing college he studied in Berlin and Paris and returned to Chicago, 
where he served as organist of St. James Episcopal church and con- 
ductor of the Musical Arts Society of Chicago. He was one of the 
founders of the American Guild of Organists. In 1895 he produced a comic 
opera called "The Medicine Man." Since 1909 he has been organist and di- 
rector of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City and conductor 
of the Mendelssohn Glee Club and professor of Sacred Music at the Union 
Tlieology Seminary. He has written many compositions for the voice and 
organ. He resides in New York. 

Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie, Wittenberg, '91, entered the Lutheran 
ministry in 1894. He was secretary of the permanent committee on tem- 
perance of the Lutheran church from 1899 to 1903 and has been chairman 
since 1903. He was legislative superintendent of the Ohio anti-saloon 
league from 1893 to 189(). He was state superintendent of the Pennsyl- 
vania anti-saloon league from 1897 to 1899. He was the national legisla- 
tive superintendent of the American anti-saloon league from 1899 to 190T 
and again since 1911. He managed the campaigns for state-wide constitu- 
tif.nal prohibition in Oklahoma in 1906-7. He directed the campaign be- 
fore congress resulting in 1899 in the adoption of amendments in regard 
to inter-state shipment of liquors, and also had direction of the campaign 
before Congress of the Webb-Kenyon inter-state liquor bill passed ori- 
ginally and later over President Taft's veto. He has been a prominent 
worker in the order of Good Templars. He has attended many conventions 
in the United States and abroad in the interests of the temperance move- 
ment. He resides in Washington, D. C. 

*RoBERT Emmet Dixon, Emory, '50, studied law and settled at Colum- 
bus, Ga. From 1857 to 1860 he was a member of the Georgia Legislature. 
In 1861, upon the organization of the Confederate government, he was ap- 
pointed secretary of the Confederate States Senate and served until June 
11, 1863, when he was assassinated in Richmond, Va. 

John Robert Dobyns, Westminster, '74, is a specialist in the teaching 
of the deaf. After leaving college he was engaged in such teaching at the 
Institute .for the Deaf at Fulton, Mo., and afterwards at the Texas Insti- 
tute for the Deaf. Since 1881 he has been superintendent of the Mississippi 
State Institution for the Deaf. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
Wesminster in 1903. He resides at Jackson, Miss. 

William Ray Dobyns, Westminster, '86, graduated from the McCor- 
mick Theological Seminary in 1889. He is a Presbyterian clergyman. He 



WILLIAM RUFUS DODSON 99 

was located at Marshall, Mo., from 1891 to 1899 and since then has been in 
charge of the First Presbyterian church of St. Joseph, Mo. He was finan- 
cial secretary of Westminster College from 1890 to 1891. He is chairman 
of the executive committee of the Y. M. C. A. associations of Missouri, 
and was chairman of the home mission work in Missouri for twelve years. 
He is the founder and president of the board of trustees of the School of 
the Ozarks at Forsythe, Mo. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him 
by Westminster College in 1901. 

*OzRO Jennison Dodds, Miami, '61, immediately after leaving college 
entered the Union army as captain of the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Shortly afterwards he became a captain in the 81st O. V. I. and in 1863 
lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Alabama Cavalry. After the war he settled 
in Cincinnati and practiced law. He was a member of the Ohio Legisla- 
ture from 1870 to 1872 and of Congress from 1872 to 1874. He was for 
several years a trustee of Miami University. He died at Columbus, Ohio, 
April 18, 1882. 

George Rowland Dodson, Missouri, '87, graduated with the degree 
of A. B., and the degree of A. M. in 1902. In 1903 he received the de- 
gree of Ph. D. from Harvard. He is a clergyman of the Disciples of 
Christ. He was located at Alameda, Cal., from 1891 to 1901, and has 
been in charge of the Church of the Unity at St. Louis since 1903. He has 
been a contributor to philosophical and theological magazines. 

John Miltox Dodson, Wisconsin, '80, graduated in medicine from 
Rush Medical College in 1882, and from the Jefferson Medical College in 
1883 and also pursued medical studies in Berlin in 1896. From 1889 to 1893 
he was a lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy and from 1893 to 1899 pro- 
fessor of Physiology and since 1899 professor of Pediatrics at the Rush 
Medical College. He was dean of the College from 1897 to 1899. Since 
1901 he has also been professional lecturer on Medicine and dean of the 
medical students at the University of Chicago. From 1894 to 1897 he was 
professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Woman's Medical 
' College. He has contributed numerous papers on topics relating to med- 
ical education to professional journals. He is a member of many learned 
societies. He resides in Chicago. * B K. 

William Rufus Dodson, Missouri, '90, graduated from Harvard in 
1894 and carried on special studies at the University of Michigan in 1898. 
From 1890 to 1893 he was assistant professor of Agricultural Botany at 
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100 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

University. From 1902 to 1905 he was assistant director and since 1905 
has been director of the Experimental Station at the Louisiana State 
University. Since 1910 he has been dean of the College of Agriculture at 
the Louisiana State University. He is state chemist of Louisiana and a 
member of the State Geographical Survey. He resides at Baton Rouge, 
La. 

*Thomas DoctGett, Western Reserve, '48, graduated from the Western 
Reserve Theological Seminary in 1861 and became a Presbyterian clergyman. 
From 1850 to 1863 he was a tutor in Western Reserve College. For several 
years he was, pastor of the Fresb3^terian church at Bryan, Ohio. In 1876 
and 1877 he was professor of Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy and from 1873 
to 1900 was lecturer on Church History at the Lane Theological Seminary. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Western Reserve in 1879. He died 
at Niagara Falls, N. Y., in 1901. •I- B K. 

Alfred Robert Louis Dohme^ Johns Hopkins, '86, received his Ph. D. 
degree in 1889 after taking a post graduate course in chemistry, geology 
and mineralogy. He then studied until 1891 at the Universities of Berlin 
and Strassburg, and at the laboratory at Fresenius at Wiesbaden. Since 
1891 he has been engaged in business as a manufacturing chemist and is 
president of the Corporation of Sharp and Dohme at Baltimore. He is a 
member of the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical 
Industry, etc. He was secretary of the National Committee of the Re- 
vision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia from 1900 to 1910. In 1899 and 1900 he 
was president of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association, and in 1898 
was chairman of the Scientific Section of the American Pharmaceutical As- 
sociation. He has been president of the City Wide Congress, a leading civic 
body of Baltimore for three years and has also been president of the 
Telephone Protective Association of Baltimore, which is active in procuring 
better telephone rates, from 1912 to 1914. He was instructor in Pharmacy 
at the Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1900 to 1912. $ B K. 

John Barnett Doxaldson, Wabash, '74, graduated in 1877 from the 
Union Theological Seminary in New York City and entered the ministry of 
the Presbyterian church. From 1885 to 1892 he was the editor and propri- 
etor of the Northwestern Presbyterian and from 1892 to 1898 of the North 
and West. He is the author of "Washington Irving," "The Two Talents," 
"A Week in Rome." He has been pastor of churches in Hastings and Min- 
neapolis, Minn.; in Davenport, Iowa, and Laporte, Ind., and now resides at 
the latter place. He received the degree of D. D. from Wabash in 1888. 



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Carl Cregg Doney, Ohio State, '91, received the degree of LL. B. in 
1893 and Ph. D. in 1902. He tooi< a post-graduate course in Philosophy 
in 1891-92. In 1893 he entered tlie ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
cluirch and was pastor of sundry charges in Ohio and in Washington, D. 
C, until 1907, when he became president of tlie West Virginia Wesleyan 
College. He is the author of "The Throne Room of the Soul" and ".\ji 
Efficient Cluirch." He resides at Buclchannon, W, Va. * B K, * A <&. 

Frederick William Doolittle, Colorado, '05, received his C. E. degree 
in 1911. He graduated from Princeton in 1905 with the degree of A. B. He 
was assistant professor of Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin and 
special investigator for the Wisconsin Railroad Commission. In 1914 he was 
assistant secretary of the Illinois State Public Utilities Commission on leave 
of absence from his regular work. He is now the statistician of the Amer- 
ican Electric Railway Association in New York City. 2 E, T B II. 

Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Denison, '94, graduated with the degree of 
I>itt. B. He then studied at Harvard and obtained his A. B. degree in 
1896. He was assistant physicist of the Maryland y\gricultural Experi- 
ment Station from 1896 to 1898; he was in charge of the field work Di- 
vision of Soils of the U. S. Department of yVgriculture from 1898 to 1902; 
he was with the Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippine Islands from 
1902 to 1903 and in charge of the Soil Survey, Bureau of Soils, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture from 1903 to 1909. Since 1909 l^e has been in 
practice as an agricultural engineer. He is the author of manj'^ bulletins 
and papers in relation to soil investigations. He resides in Los Angeles, 
Cal. 

*Hehry Wiley Doss, North Carolina, '56, studied medicine and 
graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1860. At the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate army and 
became major of the 14th Mississippi Infantry. After the war he practiced 
medicine at Pickensville, Ala., where he died in 1887. 

*Duaxe Doty, Michigan, '56, studied civil engineering. During the 
war he was for a time adjutant of the 7th Michigan Cavalry. From 1865 to 
1875 he was superintendent of public instruction of the state of Michigan, 
and from 1875 to 1880 held a similar position for the city of Chicago. In 
1880 he went into the employ of the Pullman Palace Car Co. as a civil en- 
gineer and edited the Pullman Journal from 1880 to the time of his death, 
which occurred in 1902 at Pullman, Illinois. 



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*RuTHERFORD DouGLAS, Central, 56, graduated from the Danville Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1857. He became pastor of the Pisgah Presbyterian 
church at Versailles, Ky., and remained as such until his death, which oc- 
curred April 8, 1890. He received the degree of D. D. from Hampden- 
Sidney College in 1882 and Westminster College in 1885. In 1880 he was 
elected chancellor of Central University, but declined it. From 1882 to the 
time of his death he was curator of that University. 

Earle Wilbur Dow, Michigan, '91, after his graduation, took post 
graduate- work in History at Michigan and then went abroad and studied 
at the Universities of Leipzig and Paris and at the E'cole des Chartres and 
L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Since 1902 he has been professor of 
History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of an "Atlas of 
European History." He resides at Ann Arbor, Mich. * B K. 

Guy Grigsby Dowdall, Wabash, '97, and Missouri, '97, graduated at 
the last named college with the degree of A. B. He studied at the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago and graduated in 1900. He 
has since studied at Vienna. He began the practice of medicine at Clin- 
ton, 111., but moved to Chicago in 1908. He has been chief surgeon of 
the I. C. R. R. Co. since 1911. 

Edward Staples Drown, Harvard, '84, graduated from the Protestant 
Episcopal Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1889 and became a min- 
ister of that church. He was at once appointed professor of Systematic 
Theology in the Cambridge Divinity School, and has since retained that 
position. He received the degree of D. D. from Trinity (Conn.), in 1904. 
He resides at Cambridge. <1> B K. 

John Garrison Dunbar, DePauw, '61, entered the Union army in 1862 
as a private and served through successive ranks until at the close of the war 
he was major of the 79th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. In 1868 he gradu- 
ated in medicine from the Miami Medical College, but never practiced it. 
In 1890 he was nominated for Congress, but was defeated. From 1891 to 
1893 he was a member of the Indiana Board of World's Fair Commission. 
From 1902 to 1910 he was post master at Greencastle, Ind. He resides at 
Greencastle, Ind. 

*JoHN Holt Duncan, Miami, '40, studied law and began its prac- 
tice at Houston, Texas. He was .judge of Bexar County from 1857 to 1862, 
when he entered the Confederate army as a captain of Artilley and 
served for a year. He then became a district judge and served until 1865. 
From 1877 to 1879 he was city attorney of Houston. He died in 1895. He 
was an associate founder of the Fraternity. 



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*JoHN Francis Duncombe, Central, '52, received the degree of A. M. 
from Allegheny College in 1856. He moved to Iowa in 1857. From 1859 to 
1865 lie was a member of the upper house of the Iowa Legislature and of 
the lower house from 1872 to 1875 and from 1880 to 1883. He was chair- 
man of the Democratic convention of Iowa held in 1881, and from 1873 to 
1891 was a regent of the State University. He was a specialist in railroad 
law and was counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad lines in Iowa and 
lecturer at the Law School of the University of Iowa on Railroad Law. 
He died at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, in 1902. 

Eli Dunki.e, Oliio, "77, from 1884 to 1892 was principal of the i)re- 
paratory department of Ohio University; from 1892 to 1903 he was asso- 
ciate professor of Greek, and since 1903 has l)een professor of Greek of 
Ohio University. For a number of years he has been principal of the 
Oiiio University simimer school. 

George Terhy Duxi.ap, Wooster, '86, is a publisher and junior mem- 
ber of tlie well known firm of Grosset & Dunlap of New York City. He 
resides at Summit, N. J. 

Henry Wei.i.es Di'riiaim, Columbia, '95, is chief engineer of the Bureau 
of Highways, New York City. After graduation he was for four years an 
engineer in charge of the construction of one of the sections of the New 
York Subway; then for three years he was in charge of the design and 
construction of municipal improvements in the city of Panama, and then 
became connected witli tlie construction of the Cape Cod Canal. 

Wii.i.iAiM Tenxey DriTox, Dartmoutli, '76, after graduation was a 
professor in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and principal of high 
scliools at Clinton, N. J., Adams, Mass., and Shippensburg, Pa. Since^ 
1899 he has been professor of Mathematics at Allegheny College, Mead- 
ville. Pa. * B K. 

Henry Otis Dwight, Oliio Wesleyan, '65, was born in Constantinople 
where he prepared for college. He left college in 1861 to enlist in the 
United State army, becoming a private in the 20th Ohio Infantry. He was 
promoted to the rank of captain, but declined the promotion. In the latter 
part of tlie war he was aide-de-camp to Major-General M. F. Force of the 
Army of the Tennessee. In 1866 and 1867 he was treasurer for Northamp- 
ton (Mass.) Street Railway Co. From 1867 to 1872 he was business agent 
at Constantino])le of the American Board of Foreign Missions. From 1872 
to 1899 he was editor of the Turkish publications of that board. In 1880 
he entered the ministry of the Congregational church, but resigned his po- 



104 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

sition as a missionary in 1901. From 1901 to 1904 he was engaged in general 
literary and editorial work. Since 1904- he has been secretary of the Bureau 
of Missions in New York City, and since 1907 recording secretary of the 
American Bible Society. His work has mainly been in the Turkish lan- 
guage. From 1875 to 1892 he was the correspondent at Constantinople of 
the New York Tribune. He has done considerable work in English. He 
was editor of the "Report of the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Mis- 
sions in 1900; was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Missions in 1904, 
and has written the following books: "Turkish Life in War Time," "Con- 
stantinople and its Problems," "A Blue Book of Missions," "Treaty Rights 
of American Missionaries in Turkey." He resides at Roselle, N. J. # B K. 



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Henry Purmort Eajies, Nebraska, '92, received the degree of LL. B. 
from Northwestern University in 1893 and that of Mus. Doc. from Cor- 
nell College, Iowa, in 1906. From 1898 to 1908 he was director of the 
Piano Department and lecturer on the Theory of Music at the University of 
Nebraska. In 1911 he founded the Omaha School of Music. Since 1912 he 
has been a director of the Board of Directors of tiie Cosmopolitan School of 
Music at Chicago. 

William Sylvester Eames, Washington, '78, is one of the leading arch- 
itects in the United States. After pursuing his studies at Washington Uni- 
versity, he went to Europe and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts at 
Paris, and also studied extensively in Rome and Italy. Since 1882 he has 
been engaged in practice as an architect in St. I^ouis. He is a life member 
of the American y\cademy at Rome, and a member of the National Society 
for Civic Improvement of Municipalities. He was for fifteen years a direc- 
tor of the American Institute of Architects and for two years its president, 
and is a member of the Architectural League and the International Society 
for State aiul Municipal Building. He has also held a number of public of- 
fices relating to his profession and was the representative of the United 
States at the International Congress of Architects at Madrid, Spain, in 
1904. He resides at St. Louis. 

Guy Chaffee Earl, California, '83, is a lawyer of San Francisco, and a 
regent of the University of California. After his admission to the bar in 
1887 he was associated in practice with S. P. Hall, and afterwards with 
Thomas H. Bishop and Charles S. Wheeler, California, '84. He is vice pres- 
ident and general counsel of the Great Western Power Co., also of City 
Electric Co. of San Francisco, and counsel for the California Electric Gen- 
orating Co., and the West Coast Construction Co. He is also vice president 
of the Earl Orchard Co. For some years he was a member of the State 
Senate of California. He was a delegate of the California Chapter to the 
Chicago convention of 1881, and at that convention introduced to the atten- 
tion of Eastern people the first consignment of California fruits ever 
brought east of the Mississippi. He resides at Oakland, Cal. In 1902 he 
was made a regent of the University of California for' a sixteen-year term 
and for several years has been chairman of the finance committee of the 
board of regents. 

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106 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*FoNTAiNE Richard Earle, Cumberland, '58, graduated in theology in 
1859 and entered the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. 
From 1859 to 1887, except during the war, he was president of Cane Hill 
College, Arkansas. From 1861 to 1865 he was in the Confederate army and 
became major of the 26th Arkansas Infantry. In 1866 and 1867 he was a 
member of the Arkansas Senate. He was the author of "Earle's English 
Grammar." He received the degree of D. D. from Cumberland in 1885. In 
1894 he was moderator of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Pres- 
byterian church. He died at Cane Hill, Ark., in 1908. 

*JoHN RoBiE Eastman, Darmouth, '62, accomplished his life work 
in astronomy. From 1861 to 1865 he was an assistant at the United 
States Naval Observatory, and from 1865 until the date of his retirement 
as rear admiral in 1906, he was a professor of Mathematics in the navy. 
His professional work has not been of the popular kind and its results 
are buried in the depths of Government publications. He prepared and 
edited the second Washington Star Catalogue, which contains the results 
of over eighty thousand observations from 1866-91. He was the author of 
"Transit Circle Observations of the Sun, Moon, Planets and Comets." He 
died September 26, 1913. 

William Russell Eastman, Cornell, '95, graduated in medicine in 1901 
and entered the medical corps of the army in which he now holds the rank 
of major. 

Arthur Lawrence Eaton, Iowa Weslej^an, '02, is professor of Latin 
Language and Literature at Iowa Wesleyan University. He resides at 
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 

William Clarence Ebaugh, Pennsylvania, '98, is professor of Chem- 
istry at the University of Utah. He was one of the editors of the Journal 
of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from 1908 to 1911 and is a fel- 
low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has 
written numerous articles for technical journals. He received a Ph. D. de- 
gree from Pennsylvania in 1901. 

*JoHN Todd Edgar, Washington & JeflPerson, '47, attended Centre 
College in 1841 and 1842. After graduation he studied law. In 1861 he 
was appointed Consul-General to St. Thomas in the West Indies and in 1866 
was transfered to Beirut, Syria, where he remained until his death, which 
took place June 26, 1882. 

*Alonzo Jay Edgertok, Wesleyan, '50, studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in Minnesota. From 1858 to 1860 and from 1877 to 1878 he was a 



PJTL CARRIXGTOX EDMUNDS 107 

member of the Minnesota Senate. He was state railroad commissioner of 
Minnesota from 1871 to 1873 and a presidential elector in 1876. He was 
regent of the University of Minnesota from 1878 to 188i and a regent and 
president of the Board of Regents of the University of South Dakota from 
1889 to 1896. At the outbreak of the war, then residing in Minesota, he 
entered the Union army as colonel of the 10th Minnesota Infantry and rose 
to be a brigadier-general. He was military conunander of the District of 
Baton Rouge, La., from 186G to 1867. He was United States Senator from 
Minnesota from 1881 to 1883 and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Da- 
kota from 1884 to 1889. He was .judge of the United States District Court 
of South Dakota from 1889 to 1896 and was president of the Constitutional 
Conventions of South Dakota in 1885 and 1889. He received the degree 
of LL. D. from the University of South Dakota in 1891. He died at Sioux 
Falls, Aug. 1, 1896. 

FiiANKi.ix SpExcEii EiJMOxns, Pemisylvania, '93, obtained his A. B. 
degree from the Central High School in Pliiladelpbia in 1891 and grad- 
uated from the University of Pennsylvania witli the degree of Ph. B. He 
was instructor in history at the Central Higii School from 189.5 to 1897; 
assistant professor in political science from 1897 to 1902, and professor 
of political science since 1904. He took the degree of LI,. B. in 1903 at 
the University of Pennsylvania and since tlien has been a ])racticing law- 
yer in Philadelphia. He was professor of Law at Swarthmore College 
from 1904 to 1910. He was a member of the Board of Education of 
Philadelphia from 1906 to 1911. He is a member of many associations and 
attorney for some large cor]K)rations. 

*JoHN Cahtkr Rdmoxus, Virginia Military Institute, '70, during the 
war was a private in the 43rd Virginia Infantry in the. Confederate army. 
From 1870 to 1872 he was an assistant professor at the Virginia Military 
Institute. From 1893 to 1898 lie was superintendent of public schools at 
Slierman, Texas, and was mayor of .the city from 1893 to 1895. He was 
colonel of the 4tli Texas Volunteer Infantry in 1898. He died in 1907 at 
Bastrot, Texas. 

*Paui. CAititiXGTOx Kn.Mi-XDS, ^Mrginl^l, '56, studied law and began its 
practice at Halifax Court House. Va. In 1861 be entered the Confederate 
army and served throughout tlie war as a captain. After the war he 
became a farmer. From 1881 to 1888 he was a member of the Virginia 
Senate and from 1888 to 1899 a member of Congress. He died in 1899 at 
Halifax Court House, Va. 



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*Arthur Edwakds^ Ohio Wesleyan, '58, received his A. M. degree in 
1861. He studied theology and became a Methodist clergyman. From 1861 
to 1863 he was chaplain of the First Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and 

1863 to 1864 colonel of the 9th Michigan Cavalry, in the Union army. In 

1864 he became an assistant editor of the Northwestern Christian Advo- 
cate, a position which he retained until 1872, when he became editor-in- 
chief, remaining such until his death, which occurred in 1901. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Northwestei'n University in 1872. 

Arthur Robix Edwards^ Northwestern, '88, received his A. M. degree 
in 1891, and graduated from the Chicago Medical College in 1891, and since 
that time has been in active practice in Chicago. He is professor of the 
Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in, and secretary 
of, the Northwestern University Medical School. He is attending physician 
to the Cooli County, Mercy, Wesley, Michael Reese and St. Luke's hospitals 
in Chicago. He is the author of the "Practice of Medicine." He resides in 
Chicago. $ B K. 

Elijah Evan Edwards, DePauw, '53, was a professor in the college of 
Brookville, Ind., from 18.53 to 1856 and president of Whitewater College 
from 1856 to 1858 and then a professor in Hamline University from 1858 
to 1860. During the war he was chaplain of the 7th Minnesota Volunteers, 
U. S. A. From 1865 to 1872 he was an editor of the Central Christian 
Advocate. In 1872 he became a professor in McKendree College and served 
until 1879, when he became president of the Colorado Agricultural Col- 
lege. He was poet of the Fraternity convention of 1871. He has written 
much for the press on literary and scientific topics. He received the de- 
gree of Ph. D. from DePauw in 1877. He is a Protestant Episcopal clergy- 
man and resides at Greencastle, Ind. 

Stephen Ostrom Edwards^ Brown, '79, studied and completed the 
course at the Boston Law School in 1882-83 and has since practiced law at 
Providence, R. I. He was instructor in Mathematics and Logic in Brown 
University, 1886-7. He was clerk of the Rhode Island Legislature from 
1889 to 1891. He is senior member of the firm of Edwards & Angell. He 
is a trustee of Brown University and from 1904 to 1905 was a member of 
the Commission of Revision of the Judicial System of Rhode Island. He is 
president of the Providence & Worcester Railroad Company, a director of 
the Providence Journal Company, a director of the Rhode Island Hospital 
Trust Company, a member of the Committee of Management of the John 
Carter Brown library, vice president of Rhode Island Historical Society 
and director of manv charitable institutions. * B K. 




JOSEPH DUPUY EGGLESTON 
Hampden-Sidney '86 




WILLIAM ELLIOTT 
Virginia '58 



SAMUEL Hirr ELBERT 109 

*David Quixn Eggi.eston, Hampden-Sidney, '77, graduated in law at 
the University of Virginia in 1879 and became a lawyer. He was a member 
of the Senate of Virginia from 1897 to 1901 and of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of Virginia held in 1901 and 1902 and was secretary of state of Vir- 
ginia from 1902 to 1906. He died at Charlotte Court House, Va., in 1909. 

Joseph Dupuy Eggi.estox, Hampden-Sidney, '86, taught in the public 
schools of Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina from 1886 and to 1889, 
and in the high school at Asheville, N. C, from 1891 to 1893. He was su- 
perintendent of city scliools in Asheville from 1893 to 1900. He was editor 
and secretary of the Bureau of Information and Publicity for the South- 
ern Edu'-ation Tjoird in 1902. He was superintendent of schools for Prince 
Edward county, Va., from 1903 to 1905. He was state superintendent of 
public instruction for Virginia from 1906 to 1913. He was chief 
of the field service of the United States Bureau of Education from Jan. 1, 
1913 to July 1, 1913. He has been president of the Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute since July 1, 1913. He has been an editorial writer for leading 
papers in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. He has also contrib- 
uted to scliool and other magazines. He is a joint author with Robert W. 
Bruere of "The Work of the Rural School." * B K. 

William Greene Egglestok, Hampden-Sidney, '77, attended the Uni- 
versity of Virginia in 1878 and 1879 and took the degree of M. D. at Co- 
lumbia in 1881. He abandoned medicine for journalism, and has held the 
following positions since then: Assistant editor Medical News and Ameri- 
can Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 1883-85; assistant edi- 
tor Journal of the American Medical Association, 1885-88; on the editorial 
staff off the Herald, 1889-90; assistant secretary Illinois State Board of 
Health, 1890-91; editor of the Peoria, 111., Herald, 1891-94; editor Helena, 
Mont., Tndependent, 1896-97; editor Asheville, N. C, Citizen, 1899-1900; 
editor Helena Independent, 1900-02; editor Press, Helena, 1902-04; editor 
Tribune, Great Falls, Mont., 1904-05; associate editor Star, San Francisco, 
1907-10, and now manager publicity bureau of tlie Joseph Fels Fund of 
America, Portland, Oregon. 

*Samuel Hitt Elbert, Ohio Wesleyan, '54, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar and in 1859 moved to Nebraska where he was a member 
of the I>egislature for two years. He then moved to Colorado territory 
and from 1862 to 1864 was secretary of the territory. From 1873 to 1874 
he was governor of Colorado. In 1876, upon the admission of the territory 
as a state, he became a member of the Supreme Court of the state and its 
cliief justice, a position which he held until 1883. He tlien resumed the 




110 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

practice of law at Denver and at the same time was president of the Den- 
ver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. He died at Denver in 
1889. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1880. 

Byrox E. Ei.dred, Dartmouth, '96, graduated with the degree of B. S. 
He is president of the Commercial Research Company of New York City. 
He is engaged in research and engineering work, making a specialty of 
combustion of which he is a reogni-^ed authority. He is the inventor of 
many commercial processes and products, among which is a substitute for 
platinum which is used extensively. He is a contributor of articles to 
scientific journals. He resides in New York City. 

Edward Ellery^ Colgate, '90, studied in Europe and received his Ph. 
D. degree from Heidelberg in 1895. He also received the degree of D. D. 
from Colgate in 1912. He is professor of Chemistry at Union College, 
Schenectady, N. Y., chemist of the City of Schenectady, and consulting 
chemist for New York state in legal matters. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Chemical Society, <l> B K, S S. 

Isaac Hughes Elliott, Michigan, '61, immediately after his gradua- 
tion, enlisted in the Union army and served throughout the war, rising in 
rank from captain to colonel of the 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry. In 
1865 he was breveted as a brigadier-general. From 1865 to 1867 he was 
treasurer of Bureau County, 111. In 1880 he was a presidential elector. 
He was nominated for Congress in 1874, but was defeated. From 1880 to 
1884 he was adjutant-general of Illinois. In 1894 he moved to Roswell, 
New Mexico, where he now resides. 

*WiLLiAM Elliott, Virginia, '58, attended Harvard University from 
1854 to 1856.' He studied law and began to practice at Beaufort, S. C. At 
the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate army as first lieu- 
tenant in Kershaw's regiment; in 1862 he was transferred to Brookes' 
Artillery; in 1863, he became captain and assistant adjutant-general to 
Gen. S. D. Lee; in 1864 major and assistant adjutant-general in the de- 
partment of Alabama, and in 1865 colonel and inspector general for Gen. 
Lee's corps. In 1866 he was a member of the South Carolina Legislature. 
From 1866 to 1868 he was intendant of Beaufort, S. C. In 1882 he was a 
presidential elector. From 1884 to 1889 he was a member of Congress. He 
became director of the Port Royal railroad in 1875 and was general so- 
licitor of the Port Royal, and Port Royal and Augusta railroads from 1875 
to 1907. He died at Beaufort in 1907. 

*Edward Johx Ellis, Centenary, '59, graduated from the law depart- 
ment of the LTniversitv of Louisiana in 1861. He at once entered the Con- 



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federate army and served throughout the war as captain of the 16th Lou- 
isiana Infantry. From 1873 to 1885 he was a member of Congress. He 
practiced law at New Orleans until his death, which occurred in 1889. 

Griffith Ogdex Ei.i.is, Michigan, '93, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar at Detroit, Mich. He is the editor of The American Boy and 
resides at Detroit. 

Thotmas Cargii.i. Wahner Ei.r.is, Centenary, '55, graduated from the 
Law Department of the University of I>ouisiana in 1857. From 1859 to 
1862 he was district attorney. From 1862 to 1865 he was a captain in the 
Confederate army. In 1866 and 1867 he was a member of the Louisiana 
Senate. Since 1888 he has been judge of the Civil District Court at New 
Orleans and since 1898 professor of Constitutional Law and the Law of 
Nations at Tulane University. He repides at New Orleans. 

Herbert Chari.es Elmer, Cornell, '83, after his graduation studied in 
Eprope, principally at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. He also studied 
at Johns Hopkins and received the degree of Ph. D. in 1888. From 1888 to 
1908 he was assistant professor and since 1908 has been professor of Latin 
at Cornell. He is the author of "The Copulative Conjunctions in Terence," 
"The Latin Prohibitive," "Studies in Latin Moods and Tenses" and the 
editor of editions of the "Captivi of Plautus," and the "Phormio of Terence." 
He is a member of a number of learned societies. $ B K. 

*Wii,i,iAM Thomas Ei.mer, Wesleyan, '57, graduated from the Albany 
law school in 1858, and returned to Middletown, Connecticut, to practice 
law. He was county attorney for Middlesex county from 1863 to 1875, but 
held many other offices. In 1863 and 1864 lie was clerk of the Connecticut 
Legislature. In 1865 and 1866 proI)ate judge; the next year clerk of the 
Connecticut Senate. From 1876 to 1877 he was mayor of Middletown. In 
1880 and 1881 lie was city judge. In 1882 he was one of the commissioners 
appointed to revise the statutes of Connecticut. In 1896 he was a member 
of the Connecticut Senate, but resigned to accept an appointment as judge 
of the Superior Court of Conecticut, holding the position until hs death, 
which occurred in 1907. He was at one time president of the Wesleyan 
y\lumni Association. $ B K. 

Isaac Compton Ei.ston, Michigan, '56, is a banker of Crawfordsville, 
Ind., where he is president of the Elston's National Bank. During the 
war he was in the Union army in the 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 
entering it as a lieutenant and being promoted to the rank of colonel; 
during the last two years of the war serving as colonel and aide on the 
staff of Major-General Woole. 



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*Charles Fleming Embree, Wabash, '96, moved to California and en- 
gaged in literary work. He wrote two novels which were very favorably 
received, viz., "For the Love of Tonita" and "A Dream of a Throne." He 
died in 1905 at Santa Ana, Cal. 

*James Thomas Embree, DePauw, '50, studied law at the Indiana 
Law School from which he graduated in 1852, and practiced at Princeton, 
Ind. At the outbreak of the war he became a major in the Union army 
in the 58th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in 1863 became lieutenant- 
colonel in the same regiment. He died in 1867. 

*JoHN Clay Entrekin, Ohio Wesleyan, '67, during the war served in 
the Union army as a private in the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from 
1862 to 1865. After his graduation he became professor of Mathematics at 
Central Wesleyan College, remaining in that position until 1870. In the 
meantime he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Chillicothe, Ohio. 
From 1872 to 1877 he was city solicitor. From 1876 to 18T8 he was a 
member of the Ohio Legislature and also from 1884 to 1886, serving as 
speaker during these last few years. He was a member of the Ohio Sen- 
ate from 1880 to 1882. From 1900 to 1905 he was United States collector of 
internal revenue. He ne%'er lost his interest in military affairs and in 1873 
entered the Ohio National Guards and advanced through various ranks, 
serving as colonel from 1876 to 1892 and as brigadier-general and judge 
advocate general from 1892 to 1896. He died at Chillicothe in 1905. . 

Charles James Evans, California, '88, graduated from the law de- 
partment of the University of California in 1892. He entered the U. S. 
Customs Service and since 1908 has been chief of examiners at the port of 
San Francisco. From 1902 to 1906 he was colonel and assitant adjutant 
general of the California National Guard. 

Henry Clay Evans, Westminster, '81, is a Presbyterian clergman. 
From 1880 to 1887 he was a professor in the Synodical Female College. From 
1887 to 1888 he was professor of Greek at Westminster. From 1888 to 1893 
he was president of the Synodical Female College, and from 1893 to 1904 
was editor of the St. Louis Presbyterian. Since the last mentioned date he 
has been president of the Texas Presbyterian College for Women. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Westminster in 1894. He resides at Mil- 
ford, Texas. 

Henry Darenydd Evans, Bowdoin, '01, is director of the State Lab- 
oratory of Hygiene of Maine Since 1903 he has been chemist of the 
Maine State Board of Health. From 1911 to 1912 he was lecturer on 



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Public Hygiene in the Maine Medical School and since 1913 has been pro- 
fessor of the same subject in that school. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Chemical Society and the American Public Health Association. He 
resides at Augusta, Maine. * B K. 

Marshall Blakemore Evans, Boston, '96, received his Ph. D. degree 
in 1902 from the University of Bonn. From 1903 to 1911 he was instruc- 
tor, assistant professor and associate professor of German at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, and since 1911 has been professor of German at 
Ohio State University. He has written many articles for the Philological 
Journals. He is a meml)er of tiie Modern Language Association of Amer- 
ica. 4> B K. 

*Thomas Browx Evans, Columbia, '8.5, received his Ph. D. degree 
from the University of Erlangen in 1886 and became a manufacturing 
chemist. He was professor of Organic Cliemistry at the University of Cin- 
cinnati from 1902 to 1907. He died at Cincinnati in 1907. 

Fayette Clay Ewing, .Mississippi, '80, attended the University of 
the South before attending the University of Mississippi. He received 
the degree of M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College in 1884, and after 
his graduation from that institution studied in New York and in London. 
Since 1895 he has practiced at St. Louis as a specialist in diseases of the 
ear, nose and throat. He was at one time editor of the Larync/scope and 
has written many articles relating to his specialty. He was a delegate 
to the International Medical Congress at Rome in 1893 and to the Inter- 
national Otological Congress at London in 1899. He was vice president 
in 1899 of the Western Oto-Laryngolical Association. He is a Fellow of 
the Royal Society of Medicine of Great Britain. He is one of the trus- 
tees of the University of the South. He resides at Kirkwood, Mo. 

Presley Kittredge Ewing, Mississippi, '81, was admitted to the bar 
at Houston, Texas, and has practiced there ever since. In 1889 he was 
president of the Texas Bar Association. From 1886 to 1884 he was a dis- 
trict judge. Since 190.5 he has been chief justice of the Supreme Court of 
Texas. 

*ZwiNGr,E Whitefiei.u Ewing, Virginia, '68, studied law and practiced 
at Pulaski, Tenn. During the war he was a quartermaster and lieutenant in 
the 17th Tennessee Infantry in the Confederate army, acting as an assistant 
inspector general and brigade quartermaster. From 1868 to 1870 he was 
principal of the Richmond Academy. From 1871 to 1872 professor of Latin 
at Giles College. From 1877 to 1878 he was state assessor of railroads for 



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Tennessee. He was a member of the Senate of Tennessee from 1879 to 1880 
and 1887 to 1888, and was presiding oificer pf that body during his last 
term. He was president of the Democratic State conventions of 1876 and 
1886. He was a visitor of the University of Tennessee from 1879 to 1883 
and since 1883 has been one of its trustees. He served also as a special 
judge of the Common Law and Chancery Courts of Tennessee. He was also 
president of the People's National Bank of Pulaski, Tenn. He died in 1909. 

JoHx Augustine Exglish Eyster^ Johns Hopkins, '02, graduated from 
the Maryland Agricultural College in 1899 and from the medical department 
of the Johns Hopkins University in 1905. Since 1907 he has been professor 
of Physiology at the University of Wisconsin and resides at Madison, 
Wis. 



LoTHAR Washixgtox Fabeh, Columbia, 'H2, is a mcniher of the famous 
lead pencil family of Faber. He is president of the Eberhard Faber Pencil 
Company and vice president of tlie Eberhard Faber Rubber Company, the 
factories of both companies being located at Greenpoint, N. Y. 

*FnANKi.ix Faiubaxks, WilUauis, '53, did not graduate but left col- 
lege and engaged in tiie l)usiness of making scales at St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
finally liecoming president of the great corporation of E. and T. Fairbanks 
Co. He was also for many years president of the First National Bank 
of St. Johnsbury. He was much interested in the militia and served as a 
colonel and aide to Governor Hall in 1858 and Governor Fairbanks in 
1861. He was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1872 and 1873 and 
was speaker tiie latter year. He received the degree of A. M. from Dart- 
mouth in 1877. He died at St. Johnsbury, April 24th, 1895. 

Hiram Oiu.axdo Fairciiii.d, Wabash, '6<), studied law and was admitted 
to the bar at Marinette, Wis. He was district attorney of Marinette 
County, Wis., from 1879 to 1891, and from 1893 to 1899. He was a member 
of the Wisconsin Legislature from 1883 to 1887 and was speaker from 1885 
to 1887. He was a delegate at large from Wisconsin to the National Re- 
publican convention of 1888. He resides at Green Bay, Wis. 

Joiix Wksi.ey Tiiompsox FAi,KXf:R. Mississippi, '69, before attending 
college served as a private of Cavalry in the Confederate army. After 
graduating he became a lawyer. He was a member of the lower house of 
the Mississippi Legislature from 1892 to 1891 and of the upper house from 
1896 to 1902. He is president of the Gulf & Chicago R. R. and has been 
United States district attorney. He resides at Oxford, Miss. 

Hexky Ci.intox Fai.i,, Dartmouth, '84., is an entomologist and one 
of the leading specialists to-day in American Systematic Coleopterology. 
He has contributed very many articles to the technical literature of the 
subject, notably on tiie Ptinidae, Lathridiidae, Acmaeodera, Apion, Diplo- 
taxis, etc. He is a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and a 
member of the permanent committee of the International Congress of En- 
tomologists. He resides at Pasadena, Cal. 

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116 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Wallace Rider Farrington, Maine, '91, is a journalist and resides in 
Honolulu. In 1891 he was on the Bangor Daily News, and the next year 
the Kenebec Journal. In 1892 he founded the Rockland, Maine, Star and 
became its editor. From 1894 to 1896 he was editor of the Pacific Commer- 
cial Advertiser and president of the Hawaiian Gazette Company, and in 
1898 he became interested in the Evening Bulletin of Honolulu and finally 
became its controlling owner, editor and manager. In 1912 this was con- 
solidated with the Hawaiian Star and he is vice president and general busi- 
ness manager of the consolidated corporation. He has been a member of 
the Hawaiian board of education and the school fund commission, and was 
the active factor in securing the establishment of the College of Hawaii. 
He was chairman of a committee to secure from the Legislature the estab- 
lishment of vocational schools in Hawaii. He resides at Honolulu. 

William Harrisox Faulkner^ Richmond, '92, Virginia, '95, received 
his M. A. degree from Virginia in 1898 and his Ph. D. degree in 1901. He 
was a student at the University of Berlin in 1906 and the University of 
Leipzig in 1907. He was instructor in Modern Languages at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia in 1894-.5. For two years he was principal of Houston 
Academy and then became professor of Ancient Languages at the Alex- 
andria, Va., Episcopal High School. In 1902 he was appointed adjunct 
professor of Germanic languages at the University of Virginia, in 1909 he 
was made an associate professor and since 1911 has been professor in the 
same subject. He resides at Charlottesville, Va. 4> B K. 

Albert Bernhardt Faust, Johns Hopkins, '89, received his Ph. D. 
degree in 1892 and studied at the University of Berlin in 1892 and 1894. 
From 1894 to 1896 he was an instructor in German at Johns Hopkins. 
From 1896 to 1903 he was associate professor of German at Wesleyan. 
From 1903 to 1904 assistant professor of German at the University of Wis- 
consin and since 1904 has been professor of German at Cornell. He is 
the author of "Charles Sealsfield," "Der Dichter Beiden Hemisphaeren," 
and the "German Element in the United States," for which he was award- 
ed the Loubat Prize in 1911 by the Royal Prussian Academy. He has 
edited a number of German classics. He is a member of the Modern Lan- 
guage Association and of the American Historical Association. He resides 
in Ithaca, N. Y. * B K. 

Edwix Stanton Faust, Johns Hopkins, '90, went abroad and studied 
at the University of Munich, receiving his Ph. D. degree in 1893. He then 
studied medicine and received his M. D. degree from the University of 
Strassburg in 1898. Since 1907 he is professor of Pharmacology and di- 




WILLIAM A. FIELD 
Stevens "91 




GEORGE FITCH 
Knox '97 



FRjxh' wiIjLiam fi<:r(;v8()x 117 

rector of the pharmacological laboratory at the University of Wurzburg, 
Bavaria, and dean of the medical faculty at the University. He has made 
many researches and is the author of a book, "Animal Poisons." 

Henry Baird Favill, Wisconsin, '80, graduated from Rush Medical 
College in 1883. He was professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1892. Since 1893 he has been professor 
of Medicine in the Chicago Policlinic, and since 1898 professor of Thera- 
peutics at Rush Medical College. He is physician at St. Luke's, Passa- 
vant and Augustana Hospitals. He resides in Chicago. <l> B K. 

Ai-PHEUs Davis Favili.e, Wisconsin, '08, received the degree of B. S. 
from Lawrence College in 1902. He is Professor of Animal Husbandry in 
tlie L^niversity of Wyoming and resides at Laran)ie, Wyo. # B K, A Z. 

Richard Lee Fearn, Stevens, '84, previous to entering Stevens, studied 
at the LTniversity of tlie South and at tlie University of Alabama. After 
graduation he engaged in newspaper work. From 1886 to 1891 lie was on 
the staff of the Brooklyn Eaf/Ie. From 1891 to 1893 he was secretary of 
foreign affairs for the World's Columbian Exposition. From 1893 to 1897 
he represented the United Press at Washington and in London. From 1896 
to 1909 he represented the New York Tribune at Washington. He was 
president of the Gridiron Club in 1906. He resides at Mobile, Ala. 

Jasies Huston Fei.gar, Kansas, "01, studied mechanical engineering at 
the Armour Institute of Technology. He is professor of Mechanical En- 
gineering and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of 
Oklahoma. He received the degree of M. E. from the Armour Institute in 
1910. He resides at Norman, Okla. * B K. 

*CYRrs Erasti'S Fet.tox, Ohio, '66, before entering college had served 
in tlie Union army, becoming lieutenant-colonel of the 46th Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. After his graduation he became a clergyman in the Methodist 
church and a member of the Pittsburg Conference. In 1873 he received tlie 
degree of D. D. from McKendree College. He retired in 1894 and resided 
at De Funiak Springs, Fla., where he died in 1898. 

Fraxk Wit.liaji Ferguson, Dartmoutli, '87, did not graduate. He is 
a member of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, tlie well known firm of Boston 
architects. Among their works are the U. S. Military Academy costing 
)?7,000,000, St. Thomas' church of New York City and the Rice Institute 
of Texas, besides many college buildings. He is a fellow of tiie American 
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118 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Henry Torsey Fernald, Maine, '85, graduated at Johns Hopkins with 
the degree of Ph. D. in 1890. From 1890 to 1899 he was professor of Zool- 
ogy at Pennsylvania State College, and in 1898 and 1899 was State Zoolo- 
gist of Pennsylvania. Since 1899 he has been professor of Entomology at 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College; since 1890 entomologist at the 
Massachusetts Agricultural Experimental Station, and since 1902 state nur- 
sery inspector of Massachusetts. In 1910 and 1911 he was director of the 
Graduate School of the College. He has published a large number of arti- 
cles on entomological subjects. He is a member of the Society of Natural- 
ists and many other similar organizations, and is a specialist in Economic 
Entomology. He resides at Amherst, Mass. 

Merritt Lyndok Fernald, Maine, '94, studied at Harvard from 1891 to 
1897 and graduated with the degree of S. B. Since 1899 he has been asso- 
ciate editor of the Rhodora, the journal of the New England Botanical 
club. From 1899 to 1901 he was instructor in Botany at the Alstead, N. H., 
School of Natural History. Since 1891 he has been an assistant at the Gray 
Herbarium at Harvard. He was an instructor in Botany from 1902 to 1905 
at Harvard, and since 1905 has been professor of Botany there. He is a 
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Botanical 
Society of America and other societies and president of the New England 
Botanical Club. In 1908 with B. L. Robinson, he published "Gray's New 
Manual of Botany." 

Robert Heywood Fernald, Maine, '92, was a graduate student in arch- 
itecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892-93. He was 
instructor in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at the Case school 
of Applied Science from 1893 to 1896, and assistant professor at that place 
from 1896 to 1901. He was professor of Me'chanical Engineering at Wash- 
ington University from 1902 to 1907, at the Case School from 1907 to 1912, 
and professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania 
since 1912. From 1904 to 1910 he was engineer in charge of the Technological 
Branch of the United States Geological Survey, and since 1910 has been 
consulting engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and was chairman of the Gas 
Power Section in 1911. He is also a member of many other engineering so- 
cieties. He has conducted investigations for the United States Geological 
Survey and the Bureau of Mines and furnished contributions to engineering 
societies and technical journals. His special field of research has related to 
fuel and the conservation of fuel resources. 

Chiles Cliftok Ferrei.l, Vanderbilt, '85, was a fellow and instructor 
in Greek at Vanderbilt from 1885 to 1889. He then went abroad and 




HORACE FLETCHER 
Dartmouth '70 




MIJ.LER MOORE FOGG 
Brown and Colgate '1)4 



MICHAEL MONTGOMERY FISHER 119 

studied at the Universities of Berlin, Paris and Leipzig, receiving his Ph. D. 
from Leipzig in 1892. From 1893 to 1905 he was professor of Modern 
Languages and from 1905 to 1908, of Germanic Languages at the Univer- 
sity of Mississippi. Since then lie has lived at Birmingham, Ala., and been 
engaged in editing college text books and other literary work. * B K. 

Scott Field, ^'irginia, '68, taught school for a short time and then was 
admitted to the bar at Calvert, Texas, where he has since resided. From 
1875 to 1877 he was county attorney; from 1887 to 1890, a member of the 
Texas Senate, and from 1903 to 1905 a member of Congress. During the 
war he was a scout in the Confederate Army of the Tennessee. He resides 
at Calvert, Texas. 

Wit.i.iASt At.KXAXDER FiEi.D, Stcvens, '91, is general superintendent of 
the Illinois Steel Company and resides in Chicago, 111. 

*,ToHN Ai-r.EX Finch, Wabash, '63, graduated from the Indiana Law 
School in 1866. He served in the 132nd Indiana Volunteers in the Union 
army during 1863 and 1864. He made a specialty of insurance law and was 
the author of Finch's Insurance Digest in seven volumes. He was a 
special insurance commissioner for the State of Indiana from 1875 to 
1877. He died at Indianapolis in 1899. 

JoHX Booker Fiki.ey, Hampden-Sidney, '8-5, is secretary of the Citi- 
zens Trust & Guaranty Co. at Parkersburg, W. Va. He was a member of 
the West Virginia Legislature from 18<)1 to 1893 and of the Senate from 
1893 to 1895. Since 1902 he has been a regent of the University of West 
Virginia. 

Newtox Jeffersox Finxey, Cumberland, '68, became a teacher. From 
1876 to 1878 he was president of Milan College; from 1880 to 1906 of 
Cumberland Female College, and since 1911 of Bethel College, McKenzie, 
Tenn. 

Cart. Russei.l Fish, Brown, '97, received his Ph. D. degree from Har- 
vard in 1900. Sin'ce 1905 he has been professor of American History at the 
University of Wisconsin. In 1908-09 he was research associate of the Carne- 
gie Institution. He is the author of "Civil Service and the Patronage," "De- 
velopment of American Nationality," "Guide to the Materials for American 
History in Roman and other Italian Archives." He is a member of the 
American Historical Association and similar associations. $ B K. 

*MiciiAEr, Montgomery Fisher, Hanover, '.55, on leaving college after 
graduation became professor of Latin at Westminster College and held 



120 • BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

the chair until 1870. He studied theology and entered the ministry of 
the Prebyterian church in 1858. From 1870 to 1873 he was president of 
Independence Female College and from 1874 to 1877 of Westminster Col- 
lege. From 1877 to 1889 he was professor of Latin at the University of 
Missouri and from 1889 to 1891 president of the University. He was the 
author of a work on the "Three Pronunciations of Latin." He received the 
degree of D. D. from Westminster in 1868 and LL. D. from Missouri in 
1874. He died at Columbia, Mo., Feb. 20, 1891. 

*CLEME2srT Daniel Fishburne, Davidson, '53, Washington & Lee, '53, 
after leaving college became professor of Greek and Ancient History at 
Davidson, a position which he held until the outbreak of the war, when he 
enlisted in the Rockbridge Artillery, C. S. A., as a private. In 1864 he be- 
came a first lieutenant of ordnance in Cabell's Battery. After the war he 
studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1866. He then 
became editor of the Charlottesville Chronicle at Charlottesville, Va., and 
for many years was cashier of the Bank of Albermarle at Charlottesville. 
He was one of the trustees of Washington & Lee University from 1899 to 
1907. He died at Charlottesville, Va., in 1907. 

Horace Spen^cer Fiske, Beloit, '82, graduated from the University of 
Michigan in 1885. He was instructor at the Beloit Academy from 1886 to 
1887, professor of Political Economy at the Wisconsin State Normal School 
from 1887 to 1895, and a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1892, 
and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England and Trinity Col- 
lege at Dublin from 1893 to 1894. Since 1894 he has been lecturer on Eng- 
lish Literature in the Extension Division of the University of Chicago. He 
has been editor of the University Record since 1903. He is the author of 
"The Ballad of Manila Bay" and other poems, "Provincial Types in Ameri- 
can Fiction," "Chicago in Picture and Poetry." He resides in Chicago. 

George Fitch, Knox, '97, upon his graduation worked for a year on 
the Galesburg, 111., Evening Mail as a reporter; then for three years edited 
the Weekly News of Galva, 111. He then moved to Ft. Madison, Iowa, 
where he was on the Republican and resigned in order to become editor of 
a humorous column on the Daily Nonpariel of Council Bluffs, Iowa. He 
was managing editor of the Herald-Transcript of Peoria, 1905-1912. He is 
one of the most original humorists of the day. In his "Siwash Stories" he 
created a new college as Anthony TroUope created a new English county. 
In his "Vest Pocket Sketches" he expresses a peculiarly pungent but opti- 
mistic philosophy, and he delighted all the boating fraternity with "My 



HORACE FLETCHER 121 

Demon Motor-boat." He was one of the organizers of the Progressive 
party in Illinois in 1912, and was elected to the Illinois Legislature in that 
year. He resides at Peoria, 111. 

GusTON Thomas Fitzhugh, Mississippi, '86, graduated with the degree 
of A. B. with first honors; he also graduated in law at the same univer- 
sity in 1889. Since then he has practiced law at Memphis, Tenn. He is 
attorney for many large interests. He was delegate-at-large at the Dem- 
ocratic National Convention in 1908. 

Frederick Henry Flaherty, Syracuse, '96, graduated in medicine, and 
took a course of study at Berlin. He is a surgeon. He is professor of 
surgery at Syracuse University and surgeon to St. Joseph Hospital and 
other institutions. He resides in Syracuse, N. Y. 

Herman Fleck, Colorado Mines, was an honorary member of the 
Crucible Club which became a chapter of Beta Theta Pi. He has been 
professor of Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines since 1903. He 
attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 to 1891 and obtained 
the degree of Nat. Sc. D. from Tubingen in 1892. He was instructor in 
organic chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1900. 
He has written many monographs upon the minerals of Colorado. 

Daniel Johnson Fleming, Wooster, '98, graduated with the degree 
of B. A. He afterwards obtained an M. A. degree at Columbia in 1902 
and an M. Sc. degree at the University of Chicago in 1904. He has been 
professor of Physics and director of the Forman Christian College at 
Lahore, India, since 1904. 

Horace Fletcher, Dartmouth, '70, since leaving college has been 
engaged in many occupations. Since 1895 he has devoted his atten- 
tion to research in the matter of nutrition. He is the originator of 
the system of mastication of food called Fletcherism. He has lec- 
tured on vital economics at the Chautauqua assemblies, at Valparaiso 
University and before many societies. He has been one of the editors of 
the Christian Endeavor World, the Ladies' Home Journal and the Good 
Health Magazine. He is president of the Health and EfiPiciency League 
of America and vice president of the Food Reform Society of England. 
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence. He is the author of numerous books, among others the "A. B. C. of 
Snap-shooting," "Menticulture," "Social Quarantine," "Economic Nu- 
trition," "Nature's Food Filter," "Glutton or Epicure," "The A. B. Z. of 
Our Own Nutrition," "Optimism — a Real Remedy."' 



122 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

MiLi.ER Moore Fogg^ Colgate, 94, Brown, '94, received an A. M. degree 
from Brown in 1895 and a similar degree from Harvard in 1901. He was 
instructor in Rhetoric and Oratory at Brown from 1894 to 1900, instructor 
in English at the University of Nebraska, 1901-02, assistant professor, 
1902-04, associate professor, 1904-05, and since 1905 professor of Rhetoric 
at that University. He is a member of the Modern Language Association 
of America. $ B K. 

Amouy Prescott Folwell, Brown, '85, after graduation studied civil 
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has since been 
engaged in practice as a consulting municipal engineer. From 1896 to 1906 
he was professor of municipal engineering at Lafayette College. Since 1906 
he has been editor of the Municipal Journal. He was for a time president 
and for six years secretary of the American Society of Municipal Improve- 
ments. He is the author of a work on "Sewerage" and of another work on 
"Water Supply Engineering." He is a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, New England Water 
Works Association. He received the degree of Sc. D. from Lafayette Col- 
lege, 1907. He resides at Montclair, N. J. S S. 

Arthur Youmger Ford, Central, '81, Brown, '84, was editor of the 
Owensboro, Ky., Inquirer, 1884-89, and from 1890 to 1907 was on the 
Louisville, Ky., Courier- Journal; as state editor, 1890-92; editorial writer, 
1892-94, and managing editor, 1894-1907. Since 1907 he has been vice presi- 
dent of the Columbia Trust Co. at Louisville. He was president of the 
Kentucky Exhibit Association in 1904-05, and is active in many public, 
civic and charitable enterprises. He resides at Louisville. 

Clyde Sinclair Ford, Ohio Wesleyan, '89, graduated from the medical 
department of Columbia University in 1894 and entered the medical corps 
of the U. S. army, in which he has been advanced to the rank of major. 
During 1912-13 he served in the Balkan wars and was highly praised for 
liis wonderfully efficient work among the sick and wounded. 

George Hexry Ford, Western Reserve, '62, served in the Union army 
as a private and corporal in the 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After his 
graduation he became a banker. From 1872 to 1875 and 1883 to 1885 he was 
a member of the Ohio Legislature and from' 1887 to 1889 of the Ohio Senate. 
From 1879 to 1890 he was vice president of the Painesville, Ohio, National 
Bank. From 1890 to 1903 he was a national bank examiner. He resides at 
Cleveland, Ohio. 




SAM WALTER FOSS 
Brown '82 




CHARLES H. FOWLER 
Syracuse '59 



CHARLES HENRY FOWLER 123 

*Sam Walter Foss, Brown, '82, from 1883 to 1887 was editor of the 
Lynn, Mass., Saturday Union and by his writings in it achieved a great 
reputation as a humorist and poet. From 1887 to 1894 he was editor of 
the Yankee Blade and a regular contributor to Puck, Judge and the New 
York Sun and editor of Tid Bits. He was also one of the editors of the 
Boston Globe. From 1898 to 1911 he was librarian of the public library at 
Somerville, Mass. He was the author of "Back Country Poems," "Whiffs 
from Wild Meadows," "Dreams in Homespun," "Songs of War and 
Peace," and "Songs of the Average Man." He died at Somerville, Mass., 
in 1911. He was author of the Fraternity song "Good Betas Sing Forever." 
* B K. 

Robert Verrell Foster, Cumberland, '70, is one of the leading clergy- 
men of. the Cumberland Presbyterian church. After his graduation at col- 
lege, he became professor of Hebrew and New Testament Greek, which 
position he held until 1893, when there was added to it the chair of System- 
atic Theology at the Cumberland Theological Seminary. In 1879 he was 
regularly ordained as a minister of that denomination. He has been the 
editor of the Theolof/ical Quarterly Review for a number of years and has 
written a series of theological works, comprising an "Introduction to the 
Study of Theology," "Old Testament Theology," "Commentaries on Paul's 
Epistles to the Romans," and "Systematic Theology, and for many years 
prepared for the Sunday School press commentaries on the International 
Sunday School Lessons. He received the degree of D. D. from Trinity Uni- 
versity in 1884 and of LL. D. from the Washington and Jefferson College 
in 1906. He resides at Lebanon, Tenn. 

*Chari,es Henry Fowler, Syracuse, '59, graduated from the Garrett 
Biblical Institute in 1861 and entered the ministry of the Methodist 
church and served as pastor of various churches in Chicago until 1872, 
when he became president of Northwestern LTniversity. In 1876 he was 
elected editor of the Christian Advocate, a position he occupied for four 
years, until he was made corresponding secretary of the Missionary Soci- 
ety of the Metliodist church. In 1884 he was elected a bishop of the 
church. He was given the work of organizing missionary work in the 
Orient. He organized Pekin University and Nankin University in China, 
and the first Methodist Episcopal church in Russia. He also founded the 
Maclay College of Theology in southern California and assisted in the or- 
ganization of Nebraska Wesleyan University. He was a delegate from 
the Methodist church to the AVesleyan conferences at Great Britain in 
1898 and to the Southern Methodist church in 1899. He received the de- 



124 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

gree of D. D. from the Garrett Biblical Institute and LL. D. from Syra- 
cuse and Weslej^an. He died at New York in 1908. He was an honorary 
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

Charles Sumner Fowi!er, Cornell, '88, was instructor in mathematics at 
Cornell from 1889 to 1895, and was assistant registrar of the University from 
1891 to 1893. He attended the law schoiol of the University in 1894 and 1895. 
From 1896 to 1900 he was chief examiner of the New York State Civil 
Service Commission. From 1909 to 1912 he was deputy New York state 
superintendent of insurance. From 1912 to 1913 he was assistant general 
counsel of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. From 1906 to 1908 
he was president of the National Assembly of Civil Service Commissioners. 
He is practicing law in New York City. <l> B K. 

Henry Pleasant Fowlkes, Cumberland, ' 68, left college before 
graduation and graduated at Princeton. He was admitted to the bar and 
has since practiced at Franklin, Tenn. He was a member of the Ten- 
nessee Legislature and speaker in 1879 and 1880. 

George Bexsox Fox, Ohio Wesleyan, '61, did not graduate, but entered 
the Union army, becoming a member of the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry 
and rising to the rank of major. He has previously served as a private in 
the 11th Indiana Infantry. From 1888 to 1890 he was a member of the Ohio 
Senate. He is a manufacturer of paper and president of the Fox Paper 
Company at Wj^oming, Ohio. 

David Rowland Francis, Washington, '70, is president of the broker- 
age corporation of D. R. Francis & Bro. He is one of the leading citizens 
of St. Louis and of the LTnited States. He is vice president of the Mer- 
chants-Laclede National Bank, president of the Madison County Ferry 
Company, president of the Merchants' Exchange, and of the Hospital Sat- 
urday and Sunday Association. He is a director in the Mississippi Valley 
Trust Company, and of the New York Life Insurance Company. In 1885 
he Was elected mayor of St. Louis, and in 1889 governor of Missouri. In 
1896 he became secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Cleve- 
land, and in 1904 was president of the I^ouisiana Purchase Centennial Ex- 
position at St. Louis. He has been connected more or less actively with 
practically every enterprise intended for the benefit and advancement of 
the Mississippi Valley. 

William Doniphan Frazee, Cumberland, '71, was admitted to the bar 
at Okalona, Miss. He Was city attorney of Okalona in 1872 and 1873; 



BENJAMIN ST. JAMES FRY 125 

chancellor of the 7th Mississippi District from 187+ to 1876, and presi- 
dential elector in 1876. In 1884 and 1890 he was nominated for Congress 
and in 1889 for attorney general of Mississippi, but was defeated. During 
the war he served in the Confederate army as a sergeant of Kentucky In- 
fantry. He resides at Oxford, Miss. 

James Lewis Frazieu, Washington and Lee, '68, graduated from the 
University of Virginia in 1870 and became engaged in railroad work, finally 
in 1893 entering the service of the Southern Pacific Railway; for some 
years he was division superintendent. Since 1906 he has been superintend- 
ent of bridges and buildings for the entire svstem. He resides at Bakers- 
field, Cab 

Jasper Wahrex Freei.ey, Dartmouth, '78, was professor of Natural 
Sciences in the Wilmington Conference yVcademy from 1878 to 1880, and in 
the Dickinson Seminary from 1880 to 1888. From 1888 to 1908 he was 
professor of Pliysics and Geology at Wells College and from 1900 to 1904 
was acting president of the college. In 1908 he retired on the Carnegie 
Foundation. He resides at Aurora, N. Y. $ B K. 

Thomas Harvey Freemax, Cumberland, '58, is a farmer residing at 
Mt. Juliet, Tenn. After his graduation he was principal of a high school 
for two years. During the war he served for a while as first lieutenant in 
the 45th Tennessee Infantry in the Confederate army. For two years he 
was superintendent of schools for Wilson County, Tenn. He was a mem- 
ber of the Tennessee Legislature in 1889 and 1890 and of the Tennessee 
Senate in 1894 and 1895. 

James Anor.PHus Frexch, Richmond, '74, Virginia, '78, took a special 
course for which he was awarded medals by Richmond College. He grad- 
uated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, in 
1877. The following year he studied at the University of Virginia. He 
has been pastor of a number of Baptist churches. He was located at 
ShelbyviUe, Ky., from 1885 to 1890; at Talladega, Ala., from 1890 to 1896; 
at Austin, Texas, 1896 to 1908, and at Eufaula, Ala., from 1908 to 1913. 
He is now pastor of the First Baptist ciuircii of Columbia, Ala. He was 
president of the Texas Baptist Sunday School convention for tliree years. 
He was trustee of Howard College for eight years. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Howard College in 1893. 

'Benjamin St. James Fry, Ohio Wesleyan, '56, was president of 
Washington Female College from 1856 to 1860. He was a prominent 
clergyman of the Methodist church. From 1862 to 1865 he was chaplain of 



126 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

the 63rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. From 1872 to 1892 
he was editor of the Centra} Christian Advocate at St. Louis. He was the 
author of a number of religious books, among others "Willie, the Sailor 
Boy," Robert Newton Fox," "Life of Bishop Whatcoat," "Life of Bishop 
McKendree," "Life of Bishop Roberts," "Property Consecrated," "System- 
atic Beneficence," and others, and was a frequent contributor to the re- 
ligious press. He was a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference 
at London in 1881. He received the degree of D. D. from Quincy College 
in 1870. He died at St. Louis in February, 1892. 

William Elijah Fuller, Iowa, '70, attended the Upper Iowa Univer- 
sity and graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa 
in 1870. From 1876 to 1877 he was a member of the Legislature of Iowa. 
From 1885 to 1889 he was a member of Congress and from 1901 to 1907 
assistant attorney general of the United States. He resides at West Union, 
Iowa. 

*JosEPH Scott Fullerton, Miami, '56, received his A. M. degree in 
1859. He became a lawyer and in 1861 was appointed secretary of the 
Commission on Fremont claims against the United States. In 1862 he 
entered the Union army, joining the 2nd Missouri Infantry as a private. 
He was speedily promoted and became in turn first lieutenant, major and 
assistant adjutant general of the reserve corps of the Army of the Cum- 
berland. In 1863 he was made a lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant- 
general of the 4th Army Coi'ps of the same army. In 1856 he was sent as a 
special commissioner to Louisiana and made a brevet colonel and the next 
year a brevet brigadier-general. He was treasurer of the Society of the 
Army of the Ciunberland from 1867 until his death and was chairman of 
the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission 
from 1890 to 1897. He was postmaster of St. Louis from 1867 to 1869. In 
1893 he moved to Washington. He died March 20, 1897. 

Clyde Bowmax Furst, Dickinson, '93, was a graduate student at 
Johns Hopkins from 1893 to 1897 and at Columbia from 1899 to 1900. 
From 1897 to 1899 he was a lecturer in English for the American Soci- 
ety for the Extension of University Teaching. From 1902 to 1911 he was 
secretary of Teachers' College, Columbia University, and from 1903 to 
1911 lecturer and associate professor of English at Columbia. Since 1911 
he has been secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 
of Teaching. He resides at Yonkers, N. Y. $ B K. 




DAVID R. FRANCIS 
"Washington '70 




CALEB F. GATES 
Beloit '77 



G 



Charles Kelsey Gaines, St. Lawrence, '76, from 1876 to 1895 and since 
1900 has been professor of Greek at St. Lawrence University. From 1895 
to 1900 he was engaged in newspaper work in New York City, chiefly con- 
nected witli the New York World. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Lombard in 1892. He is a member of the American Philological Associa- 
tion. He is the author of a novel entitled, "Gorgo;" also of the latest au- 
thorized revision of Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Practice. 
He resides at Canton, N. Y. €> B K. 

Oliver Marble Gale, California, '04, was at California only one year. 
He did newspaper work until 1908 and since then has been a writer of 
stories. He is the author of "Princess and Chevalier," "On Savage 
Shores," 'The Red Frontier," "A Rescued Destiny," "Duelling for Em- 
pire," and "The Great Republic," besides other books. His home is in 
Ventura, Cal. 

*Samuel Galloway, DePauw, '60, was an honorary member initiated 
in 1860 at the time he received the degree of LL. D. from DePauw. He 
received the degree of A. B. from Miami in 1833, and A. M. in 1836. In 
1835 and 1836 he studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a 
tutor of Languages at Miami in 1837 and 1838 and professor of Ancient 
Languages at Hanover in 1839 and 1840. He studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Hillsboro, Ohio. In 1844 he was elected secretary of 
state of Ohio, a position lie held until 1847. He was a member of Congress 
from 1855 to 1857. He died at Columbus, Ohio, April 5th, 1872. 

Hexry Laurexce Gantt, Johns Hopkins, '80, Stevens, '84, graduated 
at Johns Hopkins with the degree of A. B. He then took the course at 
Stevens Institute and earned his M. E. degree there. He is a mechanical 
engineer and specializes in installing modern methods in manufacturing. 
He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is 
the author of "Work, Wages and Profits." His home is at Montclair, N. J. 

*James Brittox Gantt, Virginia, '68, graduated in law in 1870, and 
moved to Clinton, Mo. From 1891 to 1908 he was judge of the Second Divis- 
ion of the Supreme Court of Missouri; then from 1908 to 1910 its chief jus- 
tice. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Missouri in 

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128 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

1906. During the war he was a private in the 12th Georgia Infantry in the 
Confederate army. He was commander of the Confederate Veterans in the 
state of Missouri. He died May 28, 1912. 

Cart. Martiexus Gantvoort, Cincinnati, '01, is an opera singer with 
a baritone voice. He comes from a family of musicians. He has sung 
in grand opera in London, Paris and Berlin, appearing in a number of 
leading roles. In light opera he has sung the part of "Little John" in 
Robin Hood and "Jack Ranee" in the "Girl of the Golden West." 

David Shepherd Garlaxd^ Randolph-Macon, '85, Virginia, '92, received 
the degree of B. A. from Emory and Henry College and of B. L. from the 
University of Virginia. He was formerly editor-in-chief of the "American 
and English Encyclopedia of Law" and associate editor of "American and 
English Annotated Cases" and "I^aw Notes." He is at present assistant 
corjioration counsel for New York City. $ A <I>. 

WiNFRED Ernest Garrison, Bethanj', '92, graduated from Yale in 1894 
and from the University of Chicago with the degrees of B. D. and Ph. D. in 
1897. From 1897 to 1898 he was an assistant in History at the University 
of Chicago and instructor in the Disciples' Divinity House. From 1898 to 
1900 he was professor of Church History and Hebrew at Butler College, 
Ind. From 1900 to 1904 he was an assistant editor of the Christian Evan- 
gelist. From 1904 to 1906 he was president of Butler College. From 1907 
to 1908 he was president of the New Mexico Normal University and from 
1908 to 1913 of the New Mexico State College. He resigned at the date 
last mentioned to establish a school for boys at Claremont, Cal., where he 
now resides. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of New 
Mexico in 1911. He was president of the American Christian Educational 
Society from 1903 to 1904. He is the author of "Wheeling Through Eu- 
rope" and "Alexander Campbell's Theology." $ B K. 

I>ons Garthe, Johns Hopkins, '82, graduated from the Baltimore City 
College in 1879 and engaged in newspaper work. He was reporter on the 
Baltimore Sun from 1884 to 1887 and represented the Baltimore American 
in New York in 1888. Since 1889 lie has been in charge of the Washington 
Bureau of the Baltimore American. He resides in Washington. 

William Henry Gartt.ey, Jr., Cornell, ' 77, graduated from the 
Pennsylvania Polytechnic College in 1876. After graduation he made a spe- 
cialty of gas engineering and since 1889 has been chief engineer of the 
Pliiladelphia Gas Improvement Co. 



CHARLES FERRIS (lETTEMV 129 

*Thomas Mii.tox Gatch, Ohio Wesleyan, '55, from 1856 to 1857 was 
professor of Natural Science at the University of the Pacific. From 1858 
to 1865 was connected with Williamette University, first as professor of 
Mathematics, tiien as professor of Ancient I^anguages and finally for five 
years as president. He was then for five years principal of different public 
schools on the Pacific Coast. He returned to Williamette University as its 
president in 1870 and served until 1880. He was professor of history and 
English Literature at the University of Oregon from 1880 to 1881. From 
1887 to 1895 he was president of the University of Washington and was 
professor of Political Science in that University from 1895 to 1897. From 
1897 to 1907 he was president of the Oregon Agricultural College. In 1907 
he retired under the Carnegie Foundation. He died at Seattle, Wash., 
April 22, 1913. 

Caleb Frank Gates, Beloit, '77, graduated from the Chicago Theolog- 
ical Seminary in 1881 and entered the ministry of tiie Congregational 
church and was sent as a missionary to Asiatic Turkey. From 1894 to 1902 
he was president of Euphrates College at Harpoot, Turkey, and since 1902 
has been president of Robert College, Constantinople. He received the de- 
grees of D. D. from Knox College in 1897 and LL. D. from Edinburgh in 
1899. He is the author of a book entitled, "A Christian Business Man." 
*BK. 

James Lathrop Gavix, DePauw, '96, graduated from the Indiana Law 
School in 1898 and has since practiced law at Indianapolis, Ind. He is 
attorney for a large ninnber of corporations and a director in many, and is 
actively interested in the social, commercial and. political activities of In- 
dianapolis. He has l)een treasurer of the fraternity since 1904. 

*Thomas Cantwem, George, Iowa Wesleyan, '69, received his Ph. D. 
degree in 1871. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, but remained a teacher. In 1867-68 he was professor of Mathe- 
matics at Upper Iowa College and from 1868 to 1870 at Iowa Wesleyan. 
From 1870 to 1875 he was principal of the Napa, Cal., Collegiate Insti- 
tute and from 1876 to 1895 professor of .Vstronomy and Physics at the 
University of the Pacific. He died at Sacramento, Cal., in 1895. During 
the war he was a 2nd lieutenant in the 45th Iowa Volunteer Infantry in 
the Union army. 

Chari.es Ferris Gettemy, Knox, '90, Harvard, '91, from 1891 to 1899 
was a reporter and Washington correspondent for the Boston Ailvertlser, 
from 1899 to 1905 for the Boston Herald. From 1905 to 1907 he was sec- 



130 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

retaiy to the Governor of Massachusetts. Since 1907 he has been director 
of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics. He was supervisor of the 13th 
census for Massachusetts. He is the author of "The True Story of Paul 
Revere.' and "The Cost of Municipal Government in Massachusetts."' He has 
written much for the various magazines. He resides at Dorchester, Mass. 

Bakneit Gibbs, Virginia, '71, graduated from the Cumberland Uni- 
versity Law School in 1873, and began the practice of law at Dallas, Texas. 
He has been prosecuting attorney of Dallas County, a member of the 
Texas senate and served one term as lieutenant governor of Texas. He 
resides at Dallas, Texas. 

George Harry Gibsox, Cornell, '88, is president of the Chicago Steel 
Car Company, and resides at Harvey, Chicago, 111. 

Barry Gilbert, Northwestern, '99, graduated in law in 1901 and prac- 
ticed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, until 1903. He then became professor of Law 
at the University of Iowa and remained as such until 1907, when he accepted 
a similar professorship at the University of Illinois and retained it until he 
returned to the University of Iowa, where he has since remained. He is the 
author of a case book on ''Damages," and many magazine articles. He re- 
sides at Iowa City, Iowa. 

*CiiARi,ES Champion Gilbert, Ohio, '43, attended Yale College in 
1839 and 1840. He did not graduate at Ohio, but in 1842 entered the 
United States Military Academy and graduated in 1846 as a second 
lieutenant pf ordnance. He rose steadily in the regular army until he 
reached the rank of colonel of the 17th United States Infantry. He ' I'e- 
tired in 1886. During the war he became a major-general commanding the 
3rd Provisional Corps Army of the Ohio. He died at Washington, D. C, 
in 1903. He was the founder of the Chapter at Ohio University. 

Henry Bell Gilkeson, Hampden-Sidney, '74, resides at Romney, West 
Virginia. He was a member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1883-85, 
1909-11, and of the West Virginia Senate, 1891-93. He is president of the 
Bank of Romney. 

Barxes Gillespie, Bethany, '92, graduated with an A. B. degree cum 
laude. He then went to the University of Virginia where he obtained the 
degree of LL. B. in 1894. He has practiced law at Tazewell, Va., ever 
since. He is president of the Hall Mining Company and vice president of 
the Yukon Pocahontas Coal Co. He was commonwealths' attorney for 
Tazewell County, Virginia, from 1901 to 1904 and since 1910 has been 
United States attorney for the western district of Virginia. 




JAMES L. GAVIN 
DePauw '96 




JOHN B. GORDON 
Georgia '52 



ROBERT CORyKLL (1LAS8 131 

*JoHN GiLt.ESPiE, AVashington & JeflFerson, '62, graduated at the West- 
ern Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian church in 1865 and became 
a clergyman. He held pastorates at various churches, but his interest was 
in missionary work, and from 1885 to 1899 he was secretary of the Board 
of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church. He died at New York 
as the result of a fall at the Presbyterian building in 1899. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Wooster in 1878. 

*Phii,ip Goode Gillette, DePauw, '52, graduated witli honors. He has 
devoted his life to the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and is deemed by 
many to have been the iiighest living authority on the subject of the train- 
ing and education of persons so afflicted. From 1852 to 1856 he was a pro- 
fessor in the Indiana Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and from 1856 until 
his death in 1912 was superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the Deaf 
and Dumb at Jacksonville, 111. He was president of the International 
Sunday School Conventions of 1873 and 1875, and of the conference of 
American Instructors of the Deaf and Dumb in 1886. He received the 
degree of LI.. D. from DePauw in 1871. 

Joseph Elliott Gilpix, Johns Hopkins, '89, received his Ph. D. degree 
in 1892. He has been in succession an instructor in Chemistry, an assist- 
ant professor, and associate professor and since 1913 a professor in that 
subject at Johns Hopkins University. He resides at Stony Run I>ane, 
Md. 'JBK. 

Noah Sampsox Givax, Indiana, '58, graduated from the Indiana Law 
School in 1859 and was admitted to the bar. From 1862 to 1863 and 1872 
to 1873 he was a member of the Indiana Legislature and from 1874 to 1875 
of the Indiana Senate. From 1878 to 1899 he was judge of the 7th Judicial 
District 9f Indiana. He resides at Lawrenceburg, Ind. 

JoHX D. Glass, Iowa, '70, became a lawyer and has since practiced at 
Mason City, Iowa. From 1877 to 1879 he was mayor of that city. From 
1884 to 1887 he was a member of the Iowa Senate and in 1888 was a pres- 
idential elector for Iowa. 

RoBEKT Cornell Glass, Iowa, '73, studied at the University of Belfast, 
Ireland, and the University of Bonn, Germany, and graduated from the 
Theological Department of Boston University in 1875, and entered the 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has served as pastor of 
many churches. In 1888-89 he was editor of the Sioux City District Rec- 
ord. From 1890 to 1893 he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Uni- 
versity of the Nortiiwest. Since 1882 he has been a member of the Board 



132 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

of Trustees of Cornell College, and in 1886 and 1887 was president of the 
board. He received the degree of D. D. from Upper Iowa University in 
1893. He resides in Seattle. 

*JoH3sr Walker Glenn, Emory, '53, became a planter. In 1861 he 
entered the Confederate army and became a captain of Infantry, serving 
until 1863. From 1881 to 1887 he was professor of Agriculture at the Uni- 
versity of Tennessee and from 1887 to 1895 principal of the Elberon Insti- 
tute. He died in 1905 at Atlanta, Ga. 

John Milton Glpver, Washington, '74, studied law and began its prac- 
tice in St. Louis. From 1886 to 1890 he was a member of Congress. From 
1890 to 1898 he practiced in New York. Since 1898 he has resided at 
Cripple Creek, Colo. 

William Franklin Glover, South Carolina, '60, previous to attending 
the University of South Carolina was a student at the University of Ala- 
bama. During the war, from 1861 to 1863, he was a private in the 17th 
Alabama Infantry and also connected with the Signal Service of the Con- 
federate army. After the war he studied law and has since practiced at 
Butler, Ala. He was a member of the Alabama Legislature in 1880 and 
1881 and of the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1881. He resides at 
Butler, Ala. 

*Francis Marion Goar, Mississippi, '70, became a lawyer, but did 
not practice. He became professor of law and dean of the law depart- 
ment of the University of Arkansas. He died at Little Rock, Ark., in 
1898. 

Hillary Asbury Gobin, DePauw, '70, became upon graduation a min- 
ister of the Methodist Episcopal church. He served as pastor as follows: 
Bainbridge, 1869-70; Remington, 1870-73; South Bend, 1873-76; Lafayette, 
1876-79, and South Bend, 1879-80, all in Indiana. From 1880 to 1886 he 
was professor of Greek at DePauw and secretary of the faculty; president 
of Baker University, 1886-90; dean of the DePauw School of Theology and 
professor of Theology, 1890-03. He was vice president of DePauw LTni- 
versity, 1894-95; acting president, 1895-96, and president 1896-1903. Since 
1903 he has been vice president and professor of Biblical Science. He was 
a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist church in 1892, 
1896, 1900 and 1904, and to the Ecumenical Conference at London in 1901, 
He served three years in tlie LTnion army during the war as a private. He 
resides at Greencastle, Ind. $ B K. 



JOHN BROWN (WRDON 133 

Christopher Marsh Goddahd, Dartmouth, '77, is secretary of the New 
England Insurance Exchange at Boston. In 1908-09, lie was president of 
the National Fire Protection Association. He has been prominent in the 
work of making fire insurance rates and was the originator of the National 
Electrical Code. He is a director of tlie Underwriters' Laboratories at 
Chicago. 

Winder Elwem. Goi.DSBORorc.H, Cornell '92, prior to entering college 
traveled extensively in India, Siam, China and Japan. From 1893 to 1894 
he was professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas 
and commandant of the corps of cadets at the University. From 1896 to 
1904 he was professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue. Since 1904 
he has been connected as an engineer witli J. G. White & Co. He is vice 
president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a member 
of many other learned societies. He received the decoration from the 
King of Italy of the Order of the Crown. He was chief of the department 
of electricity at tlie St. Uouis Exposition of 1903. He resides at Denver, 
Colo. 

*Henry Ci.ay Gooding, DePauw, '59, studied law and ])racticed at 
Evansville, Ind. During the war he was a lieutenant in the 122nd Illinois 
Volunteers. From 1872 to 1875 he was a member of the State Senate of 
Indiana. He moved to Phoenix, Ariz., and from 1890 to 1898 was chief jus- 
tice of that state. He afterwards practiced law at I-os Angeles and died 
there in 1913. 

William Lamleht Gooding, Dickinson, '74, graduated with honors and 
adopted teaching as a profession. From 1884 to 1898 he was principal of 
the Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover, Del., and since 1898 has 
been professor of Philosophy and Education at Dickinson College. He re- 
ceived the degree of Ph. D. from Dickinson in 1887. 4> H K. 

Nathaniel Lewis G'^odkich, Amherst, '01, studied at the New York 
State library School at Albany, graduating in 1904, and since that time has 
been department head in the New York State Library, librarian of West 
Virginia University, of the University of Texas and Dartmouth College, 
whicli latter position lie now liohls. He resides at Hanover, N. H. 

*JoitN Brown Gordon, Georgia, '52, studied law after liis graduation 
and began practice at Kirkwood, Ga., in 18.54. At tiie outbreak of the war 
he entered the Confederate army as a captain of Volunteers and was succes- 
sively promoted until he attained the rank of major-general, being out- 
ranked onlv bv Generals Lee and Longstreet. At the time of Lee's sur- 



134 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

render he commanded the right wing of the Confederate army of Northern 
Virginia. After the war he resumed the practice of law, but was soon called 
into public life. In 1868 he claimed the election of governor of Georgia, but 
his claim was denied. He served as the representative of Georgia in the 
United States Senate from 1873 to 1879. He was re-elected but declined a 
second term. He was governor of Georgia from 1886 to 1890 and again 
United States Senator from 1890 to 1896. He was commander-in-chief of the 
Confederate veterans from 1897 to 1904. He died at Atlanta, Ga., in 1904. 
The last six or seven years of his life he lectured all over the country upon 
the "Last Days of the Confederacy." In 1903 he published through the 
Scribners "Reminiscences of the Civil War," considered by many to be the 
best work on the subject, with the possible exception of "The End of an 
Era," by John S. Wise, Virginia, '67. 

*JosEPii Claybaugii Gordon, Monmouth, '66, was a noted specialist in 
the instruction of the deaf and dumb. From 1867 to 1869 he was 
a professor in the Dayton Military Academy. From 1870 to 1873 
he was a professor in the Indiana Institute for the deaf; from 1873 to 
1890 he was professor of Chemistry and Mathematics at Galladet College, 
Washington, D. C, and from 1890 to 1897 was dean of the Normal De- 
partment for the training of teachers. From 1897 to 1903 he was a pro- 
fessor in the Illinois Institution for the deaf at Jacksonville, 111., where he 
died in 1903. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Monmouth in 1892. 
He was the author of a number of books relating to his specialty. He 
was vice president of the Fraternity convention of 1890 and president of 
the convention of 1891. 

William Pierce Gorsitcii, Knox,' '98, was for a number of years at- 
tached to the teaching staff at the University of Chicago. In 1912 he was 
lecturer in general literature before the Teachers' Assembly at Baguio in 
the Philippine Islands. Since 1913 he has lieen head of the department of 
Public Speaking and Debate in the University of Washington, 

Harris Pert,ey Gourn, Maine, '93, graduated with the degree of B. S. 
He first was at the Maine Experiment Station, and then studied at Cornell 
University, where he obtained the degree of M. S. in Agriculture in 1897. 
He was assistant entomologist and assistant horticulturist at the Maryland 
Agricultural College Experiment Station and Maryland State Horticultural 
Department in 1899 and 1900 and acting state entomologist in 1901. He 
has been assistant pomologist and pomologist of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture since 1901. He is the author of a number of bulletins and 
addresses on pomological subjects. He resides in Washington, D. C. 



JOHN HENRY GRANT 135 

*Edwix Brown Graham, Moninouth, '74, graduated from tlie Xenia 
Theological Seminary in 1876 and became a United Presbyterian clergy- 
man, serving various churches in tiie central western states. From 1886 
to 1898 he was editor of The Midland at Chicago. He was chairman of 
the Nebraska State Prohibition conventions of 1885 and 1887 and was 
moderator of the Synod of Iowa in 1881 and the Synod of Nebraska in 

1888. He was the author of "Conscious Existence of the Soul after 
Death" and "In the Coils." He died in Cliicago in 1898. 

Wii.i.iAM PiiATT GitAiiAM, Syracusc, '93, graduated with the degree of 
B. S. He then studied at the University of Berlin wliere he obtained the 
degree of Ph. D. in 1897. He was associate professor of electrical en- 
gineering at Syracuse University from 1898 to 1902. He organized the 
department and has been professor of electrical engineering at tliat in- 
stitution since 1902 and since 1912 has been dean of the college of applied 
science. His home is in Syracuse, N. Y. <& B K, IC S, T H II. 

•Miles Tobey Grangeh, Wesleyan, '42, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar in 1844. He was a judge of a probate court from 1849 to 1857, 
member of the Connecticut Legislature from 1857 to 1858 and of the Coa- 
necticut Senate from 1866 to 1868. He was a judge of the Superior Court 
of Connecticut from 1867 to 1875, and of the Supreme Court of Errors 
from 1876 to 1887. He was a member of Congress from 1887 to 

1889. He received the degree of LL. D. from Wesleyan in 1868. He died at 
Caanan, Conn., Oct. 31, 1895. 

*JoHN Alexander Grant, Washington & I<ee, '66, was in th^ Con- 
federate army from 1861 to 1865 in the Oglethorpe artillery. After grad- 
uation he studied law, but left it to engage in railroad enterprises. He was 
president of the Memphis & Charleston railroad from 1894 to 1907. He 
died at New Orleans, La., in 1907. 

*JonN Henry Grant, Miciiigan, '82, graduated from the law de- 
l)artment in 1883 and settled at Manistee, Miciiigan, where he practiced law 
for many years. From 1894 to 1913 he was a probate judge; in 1905 he 
was president of the State Association of Probate Judges, and in 1910i 
a director of the National Association of Probate Judges. He was a 
director in the Manistee Savings Bank and the Northern Assurance Com- 
pany of Michigan. He was mucii interested in religious and educational 
matters, was president of the Michigan Epworth League, 1896-8, and of 
the Epworth Assembly, 1900-12, and the Miciiigan Sunday School Asso- 
ciation, 1908-13. He was at one time jiresident of the Manistee lioard of 
Education and from 1909 to 1913 was regent of the University of Michigan. 
He died January 12, 1913. 



136 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Charles Henuy Grasty^ Missouri, '81, did not graduate, but went into 
newspaper work. He was managing editor of the Kansas City Times 
from 1884 to 1889. He was editor and proprietor of tlie Baltimore Evening 
News from 1892 to 1898. He has been the controlling owner and editor of 
the Baltimore Sun since January, 1910. He was a director of the Asso- 
ciated Press from 1900 to 1910. His home is in Baltimore, Md. 

William Lucius Gtraves^ Ohio State, '93, was associate professor of 
English at Ohio State University from 1897 to 1910 and since the latter 
date has been professor of English. He is one of the joint authors of a 
recent book on "Prose Specimens for Use in Composition Classes." 

Grafton Green^ Cumberland, '91, graduated in law in 1892 and be- 
gan its practice at NashviJle. He is a judge of the Supreme Court of Ten- 
nessee. 

*Willia]m Farikfoli) Green, Washington & Jefferson, '50, attended 
Wake Forest College, N. C, during 1847 and 1848. After leaving Jefferson 
he studied law at the University of Virginia and began its practice in 1852 
at Franklinton, N. C, being at once appointed state solicitor for Franklin 
County, and serving until 1856. In 1855 he was elected to the legislature of 
North Carolina and served for seven years. At the outbreak of the war 
he entered the Confederate army as major of the 15th North Carolina Vol- 
unteers and the next year became colonel of the same regiment, serving 
until the close of the war. In 1875 he was a member of the North Carolina 
Constitutional Convention and in 1880 was a presidential elector. He died 
in 1898. He was the founder of the chapter at the University of North 
Carolina. 

John Greene, Colgate, '73, was. instructor of Latin and History at 
Colgate Academy from 1873 to 1876, and graduating from the Hamilton 
Theological Seminary in 1879 entered the ministry of the Baptist church. 
He was pastor of a church at Waterford, N. Y., from 1879 to 1882. From 
1882 to 1889 he was principal of Peddie Institute, and from 1889 to 1893 
of Colgate Academy. Since 1893 he has been professor of Latin in Col- 
gate. He was acting dean in 1908-9, and since 1910 has been associate 
dean. He is the author of "Hints and Helps for Students of Latin," and 
a large number of articles in periodicals relating to classical and educa- 
tional subjects. He was president of the New York State Classical 
Teachers' Association in 1910. He received the degree of Ph. D. in 1885 
from Colgate and I>itt. D. from Syracuse in 1913. He resides at Hamilton, 
N. Y. $ B K. 



IRA GLJXTOX (1 ROVER 137 

*Levi Thomas Griffix, Michigan, '57, entered the Union army in 
1862 as second lieutenant in the 4th Michigan Cavalry, and rose to the 
rank of captain and was breveted as a major for services in the field. From 
1893 to 1897 he was a member of Congress. From 1886 to 1897 he was 
professor of law at the University of Michigan. He died at Detroit in 
1906. 

*TiioMAs Jeffkusox GinFFi>r, Washington & Jefferson, '50, studied law 
and settled at ^'ici^sburg, Miss. When the war broke out he became col- 
onel of the 18th Mississippi Volunteers, C. S. A., and retained his com- 
mand until its close. He died at Puerto Cortes, Honduras, Feb. 25, 1887. 

Arthur Fi.oyd Griffiths, St. Lawrence, '97, graduated from Harvard 
in 1899. He at once entered upon a career as an educator. He was prin- 
cipal of tlie sciiools at Ricliville, N. Y., in 1897-8, of the Sliepard Evening- 
School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1898-9, of St. George's School, Newport, R. I., 
from 1899 to 1902, and since the last mentioned date has been president of 
Oahu C;>llege, at Honolulu. In 1907-08-09 he was president of the Honolulu 
Civic Federation. He is a trustee of and secretary of the Pacific Scientific 
Institution, and is a member of most of the public associations of Hawaii. 
He is the author of "The Chinese in Hawaii" and "In China and the Far 
East." 'I'BK. 

Bexjamix Sidney Grosscup, Wittenberg, '79, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar. In 1887 he was city solicitor of Ashland, Ohio. He 
was a director of Wittenberg College from 1886 to 1890. Since 1892 he 
has resided at Tacoma, Wash., where he has practiced law, being a spe- 
cialist in litigation relating to transportation rates. He was from 1895 to 
1907 Pacific Coast counsel for the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. He was 
president Washington State Bar Association, 1912-13 and is one of the 
vice presidents of the American Bar Association. 

Peter Stenger Grosscup, Wittenberg, '72, graduated from the Boston 
I-aw School in 1874 and was admitted to the bar and began its practice at 
Ashland, Ohio. He was city solicitor from 1877 to 1883. From 1892 to 1899 
he was United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois 
and from 1899 to 1912 circuit judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, the 
latter eight years the presiding judge of the United States Circuit Court of 
Appeals. He is president of tlie John Crerar Library. He resides at High- 
land Park, 111. 

*Ira Glaxtox Grover, DePauw, '56, was valedictorian of his class. 
He studied law and settled down to practice in his native town of 



138 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Greensburg, Ind. When the war broke out, he entered the Union army 
as first lieutenant of the 7th Indiana Volunteers, the next year he became 
captain and then major, the following year a lieutenant- colonel and col- 
onel and in 1864 a brigadier-general. In 1866 he ran for Congress on the 
Republican ticket, but was defeated. From 1868 to 1874 he was clerk of 
tlie Circuit Court. He died at Greensburg May 3, 1876. 

Nathan Clifford Grover^ Maine, '90, graduated also at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology in 1896. He was professor of Civil Engineering 
at the University of Maine from 1898 to 1903; chief engineer of the Land 
Classification Board of the United States Geological Survey from 1911 to 
1913, and since 1913 chief hydraulic engineer in charge of the Water Re- 
sources Branch of the United States Geological Survey. He is a member of 
a number of professional and learned societies. He is the author of many 
scientific papers published by the Geological Survey and joint author (with 
John C. Hoyt) of "River Discharge." He resides at Washington, D. C. 

George Blackmore Guild^ Cumberland, '55, after his graduation, was 
admitted to the bar and became a lawyer. During the war he was an ad- 
jutant in the 4th Tennessee Cavalry in the Confederate army. He was a 
member of the Tennessee Legislature from 1871 to 1872; has been a spe- 
cial chancery judge of Tennessee and was for one term mayor of Nash- 
ville. He resides at Nashville. 

Roy Bergex Guild, Knox, '94, studied at Washburn College before 
entering Knox. He graduated in theology from the Chicago Theological 
Seminary and entered the ministry of the Congregational church. He was 
pastor of a church at Woodstock, 111., for three years and of the Leavitt 
St. Congregational Church in Chicago for six years. He then became sup- 
erintendent of the Illinois Missionary society, and later New England Sec- 
retary of the Congregational Building Society, and in 1905 executive secre- 
tary of the International Men and Religion Forward Movement. He re- 
entered the active ministry in 1912, becoming pastor of the Central Con- 
gregational Church, Topeka, Kansas. 

Herbert Foster Gunnisox, St. Lawrence, '80, has ever since his grad- 
uation been connected with the Brooklyn Eagle, first as its Albany corres- 
pondent and since as its business manager and one of its directors. He is 
secretary and treasurer of the Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company and 
was one of the founders of and has been the secretary of the American 
Newspaper Publishers' Association, and he is a director in the Nassau 
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WILLIAM WIRT. OURLEY 139 

Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the author of ''Two Americans in a Motor Car," and 
edtor of the Eagle Almanac. <i> B Iv. 

Walter Balfour Gunnison, St. Lawrence, '75, was professor of Latin 
at St. Lawrence from 1875 to 1885. He moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
since 1897 has been principal of the Erasmus Hall high school. At one time 
he was president of the New York State Teachers' Association. He is the 
author of a "First Year in Latin." He resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. <l> B K. 

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, Ohio Wesleyan, '75, became a Methodist 
minister and served for four years. He then entered the Congregational 
church and served as pastor of churches at Columbus, Ohio, Newtonville, 
Mass., and Baltimore, Md., until 1887, when he became pastor of the Ply- 
mouth Church in Chicago, serving it until 1899, when he became pastor of 
the Central Church of Chicago. Since 189.3 he has been president of the 
Armour Institute of Teclinology. He has been a lecturer at the Yale Theo- 
logical Seminary and the University of Chicago. He has written a number 
of books, including "Phidias," "The Monk and the Knight," "Life of Glad- 
stone," "Metamorphosis of a Creed," "Loose Leaves of Song," "Paths to 
Power," "Higher Ministries of Recent English Poetry," etc. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Beloit in 1887. 

William Wirt Gurley, Ohio Wesleyan, '70, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Ohio in June, 1874; located in Chicago in October of 
that year and thereafter for many years had a general law practice, de- 
veloping later into more particular attention to corporation law. He is 
general counsel for the Cliicago Railways Company and other large corpor- 
a,tions. 




PETER S. GHOSSCIIP 
Wittenberg '72 




WILLIAM T. HAINES 
Maine '76 



H 

Charles Baldwii^ Hagadoux, Cornell, '86, did not graduate but en- 
tered the United States army and has gradually been promoted until he is 
now a major of infantry. For a time he was a professor at the United 
States Military Academy. 

Matthias Loring Haines, Wabash, '71, graduated with the degree of 
A. B. He also graduated at the Union Theological Seminary of New 
York in 1874. He is a clergyman. He has been pastor of the First Pres- 
byterian church of Indianapolis since 1885. He is a trustee of Wabash 
College and a director of the I.ane Theological Seminary. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Wabash College in 1888. # B K. 

W^iLLiAM Thomas Haixes, Maine, '76, graduated from the Albany Law 
School in 1878, and since 1878 has practiced law at Waterville, Maine. From 
1882 to 1886 he was county attorney, from 1888 to 1892 a member of the 
Maine Senate, from 1896 to 1900 attorney general of Maine, from 1900 to 
1904 a member of the governor's council and since January, 1913, governor 
of Maine, having been elected for a two-years term. He has been a trustee 
of the University of Maine since 1883. 

Ledyard Park Haie, St. Lawrence, '76, graduated from the law de- 
partment of the University of Wisconsin in 1878. From 1882 to 1887 he was 
assistant district attorney of St. Lawrence County, N. Y.; district attorney 
from 1894 to 1900, and from 1902 to 1908 county judge. Since 1908 he has 
been counsel to the New York State Public Service Commission for the 
Second District. He has been a trustee of St. Lawrence University since 
1884. He received the degree of LL. D. from St. Lawrence in 1912. He 
resides at Canton, N. Y. 4> B K. 

Wii.TiAM Hai.e. Brown, '80, graduated from the New York University 
Medical School in 1883 and settled at Gloucester, Mass. He is the author 
of "A Dauntless Viking," "A Fearless Fisherman," "Dory Mates," "Shore 
Life in Song," etc. 

WiLi.iAJi Benjamin Hai.e, Missouri, '90, took the course in law and 
obtained his LL. B. cum laude. Since then he has been practicing law. 
He is the author of several law books and has contributed numerous arti- 
cles to the American and English Encyclopaedia of Law and in Encyclo- 

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paedia of Pleading and Practice from 1896 to 1902. He resides in New 
York City. 

Allex Garland Hall, Vanderbilt, '83, attended Central University, 
Kentucky, and graduated from the Vanderbilt Law School in 1885. From 
1891 to 1893 he was a member of the Tennessee Legislature and in 1892 its 
speaker pro tem. Since 1902 he has been professor of Law at Vanderbilt 
and in 1906 was made chairman of the law faculty, and since 1910, dean of 
the Law Department. In 1906 he received the degree of LL. D. from Cen- 
tral. In 1906 he was moderator of the Presbyterian church. South. He was 
the editor of the 83rd and 84th voknnes of the reports of the Tennessee 
Supreme Court. 

*Bentox Jay Hall, Miami, '55, after graduation studied law and 
settled at Burlington, Iowa. He was a member of the lower house of the 
Iowa Legislature from 1872 to 1874 and of the upper house from 1882 to 
1884. In 1885 he was elected to Congress and served until 1887. In 1887 
he was appointed commissioner of patents and served two years. He died 
at Burlington, Iowa, Jan. 5, 1894. 

Frank Jefferson Hall, Indiana, '67, studied law and recieved the de- 
gree of LL. B. in 1869 and is practicing law at Rushville, Ind. From 1906 
to 1908 he was lieutenant-governor of Indiana. 

John Julius Halsey, Chicago, '70, after graduation, was an instructor 
at the University of Chicago for a year. He then engaged in business. 
Since 1878 he has been a professor of Political Science in Lake Forest Col- 
lege. He was president of Lake Forest College in 1896, 1897 and 1906, and 
1907. He was professor of Economics at Stanford in 1901-02. He was 
president of the Lake Forest Board of Education from 1903 to 1907 and 
has held various other civil appointments. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Historical Association, the American Economical Association, the 
American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Asso- 
ciation and other similar societies. He is one of the authors of a "History 
of the Halsey Family in America," "A History of I^ake County, 111.," and 
has contributed to the periodical press. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Centre College, Kentucky, in 1898. 

David Gilbert Hamilton, DePauw, '65, is a lawyer of Chicago. After 
leaving college he studied law, receiving his LL. B. degree at Douglas LTni- 
versity in 1867. He has been prominently connected with many large cor- 
porate enterprises. In 1890 he was president of the Anglo-American Land 
Association of Texas. From 1889 to 1899 he was president of the Texas & 



THOM.IS ILIRJUXH 143 

Mexican Central R. R. and of the National Railway of Illinois and its sub- 
sidiary companies. From 1899 to 1905 he was president of the Chicago City 
Railway Co. He is director in a mmiber of banks and a trustee of the Uni- 
versity ef Chicago. 

Dick Hanky, Iowa Wesleyan, '74, graduated from the Law Depart- 
ment of the Iowa State University and practiced law at Lansing, Iowa, 
for some ten years. He then removed to Pierre, S. D. In 1889 he was 
elected circuit judge and in 1893 was re-elected. Since 1896 he has been 
a judge of the Supreme Court of South Dakota. He resides at Mitchell, 
S. D. 

Fraxki.ix Hanford, Naval Academy, '66, was promoted from time to 
time until he became a rear admiral and retired in 1903 after forty years of 
service. He circumnavigated tiie globe while attached to the Flagship 
Pensacola. He was a commandant of tiie naval station at Cavite in the 
Philippines in 1900 and 1902. He resides at Scottsville, N. Y. 

*Joiix Haxxa, DePauw, '.50, studied law and began its practice at 
Greencastle. From 1851 to 1854 he was mayor of Greencastle. In 1855 he 
moved to Kansas and was a member of the Kansas I^egislature from 1857 
to 1859. He was chairman of the judiciary committee and introduced the 
act abolishing slavery in Kansas. In 1860 he returned to Indiana and in 
the fall of the year was elected a presidential elector. From 1861 to 1867 
he was LTnited States attorney for the Di.strict of Indiana. From 1877 to 
1879 he was a member of Congress. He died at Plainfield, Ind., Oct. 24, 
1882. 

Joiix Cai.vix Haxx'a, AVooster, '81, is supervisor of high scliools for 
the state of Ilinois and resides at Springfield, 111. From 1898 to 1913 he was 
principal of Oak Park, 111., high school and regarded as one of the leading 
authorities in the LTnited States on secondary education. His services to the 
Fraternity have been Jiimierous and unusually important. He was general 
secretary from 1884 to 1899, member of the executive committee from 1892 
to 1896 and of the board of trustees from 1893 to 1894, and 1897 to 1906. 
He was president of the Fraternity from 1900 to 1903 and editor of the 
catalogue of 1899. He is the author of tiie libretto of a cantata, "Hebe." 
He is a member of the American Philological Association and is the author 
of two chapters of "High School Education" by Chas. W. Johnson, and 
others. 

*Thomas Harbixe, Miami, '42, left college before graduation and re- 
turning to liis liome in Maryland studied law and was admitted to the 



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bar. He was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Mary- 
land in 1850. In 1852 he became prosecuting attorney for Washington 
County, Md. and served for four years. He then moved to St. Joseph, 
Mo. When the Civil war broke out he became lieutenant-colonel of the 
25th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Union army and served for a 
year, accepting the position of colonel of the Third Provisional Regiment. 
In 1863 he was elected mayor of St. Joseph and served two terms. In 
1866 he was elected to the Missouri Senate where he also served two terms. 
In 1870 he became interested in the St. Joseph & Denver Railroad and was 
made its vice president. The next year he moved to Fairbury, Neb., where 
he engaged in banking. He founded and was president of the Harbine 
Bank, Fairbury, Neb., and the First National Bank of Nelson, Neb. He 
died in 1892. 

Herbert Aaron Hard, Ohio Wesleyan, '98, is a geologist and professor 
of geology at the North Dakota State Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
lege. He is also director of the Geological Survey of North Dakota. He 
resides at Fargo, N. D. 

William Hard, Northwestern, '00, studied at the University College in 
London. He was a Fellow in history at Northwestern University in 1900-01, 
and had charge of the Northwestern University Settlement the following 
year. He was an editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune from 1901 to 1905, 
and during 1905-06 was assistant to the commissioner of Public Works of 
Chicago. Since 1906 he has been a writer for magazines. He is the author 
of "The Women of To-morrow." He is an editor of Everybody's magazine. 
He resides at Montclair, N. J. <1> B K. 

*Robert Arci-ielatjs Hardaway, Emory, '47, after his graduation en- 
tered the army and served during the war with Mexico as lieutenant and 
adjutant of Alabama Infantry. Upon his return to Alabama he studied 
Civil Engineering and became chief engineer and general superintendent of 
the Mobile & Girard R. R. until 1857. In 1861 he entered the Confederate 
army as a captain of Artillery and in 1863 became colonel commanding 
Hardaway's Battalion, serving until the close of the war in 1865. From 
1869 to 1872 he was chief engineer of the East Alabama Railway; from 1872 
to 1881 commandant and professor of Civil Engineering at the Mechanical 
and Agricultural College of Alabama. During 1881-82 he was division en- 
gineer of the Mexican Central R. R.; from 1882 to 1898 he was professor of 
Civil Engineering at the University of Alabama. He died at University, 
Ala., April 9, 1898. 




J. CALVIN HANNA 
Wooster '81 




M. HARLAN 
Centre '50 



l<:i)WARI> ROCllli: Il.lRDY 145 

Geohge RoBEitT Haiidii;, St. Lawreiicf, '!»(), studied at Harvard in 1891- 
2 and received his M. A. degree from St. Lawrence in 1892. Since 1893 he 
has been professor of the Latin Language and Literature at St. Lawrence 
and secretary of the faculty and recorder. He has l)een president of the 
district in wiiicii iiis chapter is located and of tlic St. Lawrence Alumni 
Association. <t B K. 

*CiiAui,Es Henhy Hardix, Miami, "41, was born July 15, 1820. His 
early youth was spent at Columbia, Mo. During 1837, 1838 and 1839 he 
was a student at the University of Indiana. In the latter year he entered 
Miami University. After leaving college he studied law. In 1848 he was 
elected state's attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri and 
was remarkably successful. In 1852 he was elected a member of the lower 
house of the Missouri Legislature and was re-elected in 1854 and 1858. In 
1855 he was ajijjointed on a commission to revise and codify the laws of 
Missouri. In 1800 he was elected State senator. In 1862 he was dis- 
franchised for alleged disloyalty, although he was the only senator who 
voted against secession. In 1870 he was again elected to the Senate and 
served two years. In 1875 he was elected governor of Missouri and served 
two years. In 1884 he was president of the Democratic state convention. 
His activities in educational matters were notable. He was one of the 
curators of the University of Missouri. He founded the Hardin Female 
College at Mexico, Mo., in 1875, and was ])resident of its board of trustees 
until his death. He was a trustee of William Jewell College for twenty- 
two years. He was also president of the Mexico Southern Bank and active 
in many other matters. He died July 9, 1892. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from William Jewell College in 1890. He was orator of tlie Fra- 
ternity convention of 1885 and a founder of the Fraternity in 1839. 

Edwahi) Lawyer Hardy, Wisconsin, '93, graduated witli tlie degree of 
B. Litt. He was head of the dei)artment of History at the Soutli Division 
High School of Milwaukee from 1894 to 1898. He then studied in France 
and Germany for a year. He was jn-incipal of the high school at River- 
side, 111., from 1901 to 1906, principal of tiie San Diego, Cal., high school 
from 1906 to 1910, and since then has been principal of the State Normal 
School of San Diego, Cal., where he now resides. He was a member of the 
California State Board of Education during 1910 and 1911. 

Edward Rochie Hardy, Boston, "96, studied law, but has always been 
comiected with the insurance business, in which he is a specialist. He is 
assistant manager of the New York Fire Insurance Exchange, lecturer on 
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counts and Finance of New York University, secretary and treasurer of the 
Insurance Society of New York, and chairman of the Education Committee 
of the Institute of Insurance Societies. He was active in the preparation of 
the Cyclopedia of Fire Prevention and Insurance, furnishing all the matter 
for the fourth volume and articles for the other volumes. He resides in 
New York, N. Y. 

HoBART Abiory Hare, Pennsylvania, '84, was clinical professor of Dis- 
eases of Children, 1890-91, in the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1891 
he has been professor of Therapeutics and Diagnosis at the Jefferson Medi- 
cal College. In 1889 he was editor of the University Medical Magazine, in 
1890 and 1891 of the Medical News and since 1891 of the Therapeutic 
Gazette. He is the author of a large number of medical prize essays 
and several works on medicine, including "Mediastinal Disease," "The 
Pathology and Treatment of Fever," "Epilepsy," "The Physiological Effects 
of Tobacco," "A Text Book of the Practice of Medicine," "A Text Book on 
Practical Therapeutics," "A Text Book on Diagnosis." He is a member of 
the board of city trusts of Philadelphia. He resides at Philadelphia. 

*James Harlax, DePauw, '45, after graduation, taught school and 
studied law. In 1847 and 1848 he was superintendent of public instruc- 
tion of Iowa. From 1853 to 1855 he was president of Iowa Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1855 and served 
\mtil 1865, when he became secretary of the Interior. In 1867 he resigned 
to again resume his seat in the senate, which he retained until 1873. From 
1882 to 1885 he was chief justice of the Court of Commissioners to adjust 
the Alabama claims. He was a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan for over thirty 
years and president of the board. Pie received the degree of LL. D. in 
1858. He died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Oct. 5, 1899. 

*Joiix Marshall Harlan, ' Centre, '50, after his graduation studied 
law at the Transylvania Law School, graduating in 1853. In 1858-9 he was 
presiding judge of Franklin County, Ky. In 1860 he was a presidential 
elector. In 1861 he entered the Union army as colonel of the 10th Kentucky 
Volunteer Infantry, and resigned in 1863, at which time he was command- 
ing the Second Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 4th Army Corps with the 
rank of brigadier-general. From 1863 to 1867 he was attorney-general of 
Kentucky. In 1871 and 1875 he was the Republican candidate for governor 
of Kentucky, but was defeated. In 1880 he was appointed a justice of the 
United States Supreme Court, whicli position he held until his death in 
1912. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1883 from Bowdoin, in 1884 



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from Centre, in 1885 from Princeton, and in 1900 from the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Henry Winston Harper, Texas, '86, graduated from the Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy in 1881 and from the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia in 1892. He vi^as for some time engaged in chemical 
metallurgical work in Texas, Colorado and Mexico. Since 1894 he has been 
connected with the chemical department of the University of Texas, first 
as an assistant professor and since 1903 as professor. He was president in 
1900 and 1901 of the Texas Academy of Science. He is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of 
the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry and 
many other similar organizations. He has been a voluminous writer on sub- 
jects relating to chemistry and medicine. He resides at .Vustin, Texas. 

*Henrv Richard Harris, Emory, '47, received the degree of A. M. in 
1850 and became a planter at Xerxes, Ga. He was a member of the Seces- 
sion Convention of 1861. He was a member of Congress from 1872 to 1878 
and from 1884 to 1886. From 1886 to 1888 he was third assistant postmaster 
general. He died at Odessadale, Ga., October 15, 1909. 

James Alexander Harris, A'^anderbilt, '86, graduated from the law 
department in 1887. From 1887 to 1893 be was chief clerk of the Tennessee 
Senate and from 1893 to 1899 comptroller of Tennessee. Since 1899 he has 
been practicing law at Denver, Colo., where he resides. 

•William Thomas Harris, Georgia, '49, studied law and practiced at 
Greenville, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia I>egislature from 1857 to 
1859. He entered the Confederate army in 1861 as colonel of the 2nd Georgia 
Infantry and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 

*Dabney Carr Harrison, Hampden-Sidney, '54, attended the Univer- 
sity of Virginia from 1848 to 1850 and in 1851 graduated from Princeton. 
He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sidney 
in 1854, serving while a student there as adjunct professor of Hebrew in 
the seminary. He became a Presbyterian minister and accepted the posi- 
tion as professor of Hebrew and pastor of the College Church at Hampden- 
Sidney, remaining as such until 1856. He was pastor of a Presbyterian 
church at Lynchburg, Va., in 1857 and at Bethlehem, Xa., from 1858 to 
1861. In 1857 and 1858 he was chaplain of the University of Virginia. At 
the outbreak of the war he organized and became the captain of the Har- 
rison Guards in the 56th Virginia Volunteer Infantry in the Confederate 
army and was killed at the battle of Fort Donaldson in 1863. 



148 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Zadok Daniel Harrison, Oglethorpe, '62, since 1869 has been clerk of 
the Supreme Court of Georgia at Atlanta. During the war he served in 
the Confederate army as captain and colonel of infantry. 

*George Scott Hart, Washington & Jefferson, '42, studied law after 
graduation and was admitted to the bar. He was a deputy attorney gen- 
eral of Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1848, District Attorney from 1850 to 
1853, and presiding judge of the 27th Judicial District of Pennsylvania 
from 18TO to 1886. He died at Washington, Pa., May 5, 1888. 

*Louis Powell Harvey, Cincinnati, '41, studied at Western Reserve 
University from 1837 to 1839. He then taught at Woodward College, Cin- 
cinnati. In 1841 he married and removed to Southport, Wis., (now Ken- 
osha) and from 1843 to 1847 was editor of the Southport American and 
also taught school. From 1847 to 1851 he was a merchant and then moved 
to Waterloo (now known as Shopiere) Wis. Here he purchased a water 
power and erected a mill and engaged in merchandising. He was a member 
of the Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1847. He was a member of 
the Wisconsin senate from 1853 to 1857 and during 1856-57 was its presid- 
ing officer. From 1859 to 1861 he was secretary of state for Wisconsin and 
a regent of the State University. In 1862 he was elected governor of Wis- 
consin. After the battle of Shiloh he visited the Wisconsin troops at Pitts- 
burg Landing and was accidentally drowned at Savannah, Tenn., April 19, 
1862. 

*WiLLiAM Summer Harwood, Iowa, '85, became a journalist and edi- 
torial writer for the leading newspapers in Chicago, Minneapolis and St. 
Paul. He wrote considerable poetry and was a frequent contributor to the 
best American and English magazines. In 1905 he moved to Los Gatos, 
California, and becoming interested in the work of Luther Burbank did 
much to disseminate knowledge concerning it. He was the author of "New 
Creations in Plant Life," "The New Earth," "Biography of Austin Craig." 
He died Nov. 2, 1908. 

Lee Claflin Hascall, Boston, '80, entered the subscription book pub- 
lishing business. Since 1886 he has been president of the Fraternity Pub- 
lishing Company at Boston, and for a number of years general manager of 
George L. Schuman & Co., the publishers of Stoddard's Lectures. He has 
distributed hundreds of thousands of books through canvassers. He is one 
of the trustees of Boston University. He resides at Brooldine, Mass. 

Henry Rand Hatfield, Northwestern, '92, engaged in business for 
several years and then became an instructor in Political Economy at Wash- 




LOUIS P. HARVEY 
Cincinnati '41 




KIRK HAWKINS 

"Westminster '02 



ER.ISMl\<! II A WORTH 149 

ington University from 1894. to 1898. In 1897 he attended the University 
of Chicago and received a Ph. D. degree. From 1898 to 1902 he was 
instructor in Political Economy, and from 1902 to 1904 associate pro- 
fessor of Political Economy and dean of the College of Commerce and 
Administration at tiie University of Chicago. From 1904 to 1909 he 
was associate professor of Accounting at the University of California, and 
since 1909 has been professor in and secretary of the College of Commerce 
at that University. He is the author of "Modern Accounting." He was a 
director of the Efficiency Society in 1912-13, and is an honorary member of 
the American Association of Public Accountants. He resides at Berkeley, 
Cal. *BK. 

James Taft Hatfield, Northwestern, '83, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Johns Hopkins in 1890. From 1884 to 1885 he was professor of clas- 
sical languages at Rust University. From 1887 to 1890 he was a graduate 
student and Fellow at Johns Hopkins. Since 1890 he has been professor of 
the German Language and Literature at Northwestern. In 189G he studied 
at several foreign universities. He served as chief-yeoman and gun-captain 
on U. S. S. Yale during the Spanish war. He is the author of "Elements of 
Sanskrit Grammar," "A Study of Juvencus," "Materials for German Com- 
position," "German Lyrics and Ballads," "From Broom to Heather," and 
has edited a large number of German and other classics. He is a member 
of the Modern Language Association of America and a number of other 
learned societies. He resides at Evanston, 111. 4> B K. 

JoHX I^Ewis Hatfield, Ohio, '62, after graduation enlisted in the Un- 
ion army and became lieutenant in the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After 
the war he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. From 
1870 to 1882 he was professor of Ancient Languages at Ohio University. He 
resides at Indianola, Iowa. 

IcHizo Hattort, Rutgers, '75, is governor of Hyogo Ken, Japan, a 
member of the House of Peers of Japan and of the First Order of the 
Rising Sun. He received the degree of LL. D. from Rutgers in 1900. He 
resides at Kobe, Japan. 4> B K. 

Kirk Hawkins, Westminster, '02, graduated from the law department 
of the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar. He was a 
member of the Missouri Legislature in 1909 and 1910 and of the Missouri 
Senate in 1911 and 1914. He resides at Springfield, Mo. 

Erasmus Haworth, Kansas, "81, is an eminent geologist. He was pro- 
fessor of Geology at Penn College from 1881 to 1888, and at the Univer- 



.150 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

sity of Kansas since 1892. He is dean of the Mining Department of the 
University. In 1894 he organized the Kansas Geological Survey and is the 
state geologist. He has for many years been connected with the U. S. 
Geological Survey, and the state Geological Survey of Missouri. He is the 
author of many of the reports of the Kansas Geological Survey and of 
many articles in scientific and technical journals. €> BK, S S. 

*LAWRE]srcE Gako Hay^ Miami, '47, was a well known Presbyterian 
clergyman and missionary. He graduated from the Princeton Theological 
Seminary in 1850 and immediately went to India, where he was superin- 
tendent of the Mission Press at Allahabad until 1857. He then returned to 
the United States and organized the. Ninth Presbyterian Church at Indian- 
apolis. He also established "Hay's Academy" and was its principal from 
1860 to 1864. From 1866 to 1874 he was receiver of the sinking fund of 
the State of Indiana. From 1874 to 1885 he was secretary of the Franklin 
Life Insurance Company and from 1885 to 1888 president of Coates Col- 
lege. He was the author of many pamphlets and addresses and was a 
popular and well known lecturer. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Olivet College in 1876. He died at Indianapolis in 1896. 

Lee Hayes^ Missouri, '79, received the degree of civil engineer in 
1880. He was engaged in civil and mining engineering in Colorado from 
1879 to 1897, was county surveyor of Park County, Colo., for two years, 
of Pitkin County, Colo., for two years, and city engineer of Aspen, Colo., 
for two years. In November, 1897, he removed to Butte, Mont., and for 
several years thereafter was engaged as an engineer and expert witness 
for the Boston & Montana and Butte & Boston Mining Companies in the 
law suits involving the Rarus Mine. Since 1900 he has been chief en- 
gineer of the engineering department of the Boston & Montana and 
Butte & Boston Mining Companies, and since the consolidation of these 
companies with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company has been chief 
engineer of the consolidated corporation. 

*Artemas Jeax Hayxes, Denver, '85, studied at Boston University 
from 1881 to 1883 and was studying at Harvard in 1887 when he was called 
to assist Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus (Ohio Wesleyan, '75), and became act- 
ing pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church at Chicago. His health 
broke down there in 1890, but in 1895 he was called to be the pastor of the 
United or North Church at New Haven, succeeding Dr. Theodore T. 
Munger (Western Reserve, '51). He was drowned accidentally while at 
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Mybon Wilbur Haynes, Colgate, 79, studied theology and entered 
the ministry of the Baptist church. He has been a pastor at Frankfort, 
N. Y., Marblehead, Mass., Kalamazoo, Mich., the Englewood church at 
Cliicago, the Belden Avenue Church at Chicago, the First Baptist church 
at Seattle, and the Delmar Avenue Church, St. I.ouis. From 1896 to 1902 
he was president of the board of trustees of Shurtleff College. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Shurtleff College in 1891. He was also 
president of the Illinois State Baptist Conventions of 1892 and 1902. He 
is the author of "Modern Evangelism." He is engaged in the work of 
increasing the endowment of Franklin College. He resides at Franklin, 
Ind. 4> B K. 

Howard Hazi.ett, Washington and Jefferson, '74, is a banker and in- 
vestment broker, residing at Wheeling, AVest Virginia. He is president of 
the Mutual Savings Bank of Wheeling, of the Pan Handle Traction Com- 
pany and other industrial corporations, of tiie associated charities of 
Wheeling, and the Home Fire Insurance Company. He is chairman of 
the executive committee of the Ohio Valley General Hospital. 

Thomas Tixsi.ey Heath, Ohio Wesleyan, '58, left college without grad- 
uating and attended the Cincinnati Law School, where he graduated with 
first honors in 1858. From 1861 to 1865 he was in the Union army as pri- 
vate, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the 5th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, as 
brigadier-general of the 3rd Brigade and major general of the 3rd Corps of 
the Division of the Mississippi. From 1865 he was military commander in 
charge of the District of West North Carolina. Since 1865 he has practiced 
law in Cincinnati. He is the inventor of the system of matrix printing of 
the typograph machine and of other important improvements in the art of 
printing. He resides at Cincinnati. 

JoHX Langdon Heaton, St. Lawrence, '80, immediately upon his grad- 
uation engaged in journalism, from 1881 to 1889 on the Brooklyn Times, 
and since 1889 as an editorial writer on the New York World. He is the 
author of "Tiie Story of Vermont," "Stories of Napoleon," "The Quilting 
Bee," "The Story of a Page." He is a member of the advisory board, Pul- 
itzer School of Journalism of Columbia University. He resides at Brooklyn. 
N. Y. 

Charles Girvex Heckert, Wittenberg, '86, received his Master's de- 
gree in 1889, at which date he graduated at the Wittenberg Theological 
Seminary and became a minister of the Lutheran church. From 1891 to 1893 
he was principal of Wittenberg Academy. In 1893 he became professor of 



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English and Logic in Wittenberg College and since 1903 he has been presi- 
dent of that college. From 1900 to 1903 he was managing editor of the 
Lutheran World, and in 1892 was president of the Miami Synod of the 
Lutheran church. He received the degree of D. D. from Carthage College 
in 1899. He was vice president of the Ohio College Association during 1912. 
He is a member of several learned societies and was one of the charter 
commissioners who formulated the commission manager form of govern- 
ment for Springfield, Ohio. He resides at Springfield, Ohio. 

Charles Richmond HE>rDERS0N, Chicago, '70, graduated from the old 
University of Chicago in 1870 and while a student there was the founder 
of the Chicago chapter. After graduation he studied theology at the Bap- 
tist Union Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1873. From 
1873 to 1892 he was pastor of Baptist churches at Terre Haute, Ind., and 
Detroit, Mich. Since 1892 he has been connected with the University of 
Chicago as chaplain and as assistant professor and professor of Sociology; 
head of department of Practical Sociology. He received the degree of 
D. D. in 1885 from the theological seminary and Ph. D. in 1901 from 
the University of Leipzig. He is associate editor of the American 
Journal of Sociology, and of the Journal of the American Institute of- 
Criminal Law and Criminology. He was president of the VIHth Internat- 
ional Prison Congress in 1910, of the National Conference of Charities and 
Corrections in 1899 and of the American Prison Association in 1902. He is 
United States commissioner on the International Prison Commission and a 
member of tlie Societe Generale des Prisons, and vice president of the 
Congress international d'assiirance sociale and of the Union Internationale 
du droit penal. He lias written very many articles on sociology and been a 
frequent contributor to the periodical literature of the subject. He is the 
author of "Introduction to the study of the Dependent, Defective and De- 
linquent Classes," and "Development of Doctrine in the Epistles," "The So- 
cial spirit in America," "Social Settlements" and "Social Elements," "Mod- 
ern Prison Systems," "Modern Methods of Charity," "Methods of Preven- 
tion in the United States," "Die Arbeitsversicherung in den Vereinigten 
Staaten," "Industrial Insurance," "Education in Relation to Sex," "Social 
Duties from a Christian Standpoint," "Social Programmes of the West," 
and others. «I> B K. 

Wit.T.iAM Jacksox Hexdrick, Centre, '73, was admitted to the bar in 
1876. He was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1881-82. He was 
a presidential Democratic elector in 1884 and 1888 and a member of the 
Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1890. He was attorney general of 




CHARLES R. HEN UERHOX 
Chicago '70 




JOHN W. HERON 
Miami '45 



CHARLES McGUFFEY HEPnURX 153 

Kentucky from 1891 to 1896. He was counsel for the State of Kentucky 
in the Franchise tax cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. 
He practices law in New York City, where he resides. 

*Abram WAsiiiNCiTox Henuhicks, Washington & Jefferson, '43, grad- 
uated with the English salutatory. Prior to attending Jefferson College he 
spent two years, viz. 1839 and 1840, at Hanover College. He graduated 
from the Transylvania Law School in 1845 and was the last member of 
the Transylvania ciiapter. From 18.52 to 18.5.5 he was a member of the 
Indiana Legislature, From \M\ to 186-5 he was a paymaster in the Union 
army with the rank of major. He died at Indianapolis Nov. 25, 1887. He 
was the orator at the fraternity convention of 1851. 

Patkick Henhv, Mississippi, '82, was born in Arkansas. He attended 
the public scliools, spent two years at the University and was admitted to 
l:he bar in 1884. For eight years he was district attorney of the Ninth 
Judicial Circuit. He was then appointed judge of the Circuit Judicial 
District for four years. He resigned to take his seat in Congress, serving 
from 1901 to 1903. He resides at Vicksburg, Mass., where he is practising 
law. 

Andrew Dousa HEPBrux, Washington and Jefferson, '51, after gradu- 
ating, spent three years in study at the University of Virginia, from which 
he graduated in 1854. He then entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, 
graduating in 1857, and became a Presbyterian minister. After serving as 
pastor to churches at Harrisonlmrg and New Providence, Va., in 1860, he 
accepted the position of professor of I>ogic, Rhetoric and English at the 
University of North Carolina and remained there until 1867, when he be- 
came professor of the same subjects at Miami University, and from 1871 
to 1873 was president of Miami. From 1877 to 1885 he was president of 
Davidson College, N. C, and in 1885 returned to Miami and again became 
professor of English until 1908, when he resigned. He resides at Hamilton. 
Ohio. He is the author of a Manual of English Rhetoric. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Hampden-Sidney in 1876 and LL. D. from North 
Carolina in 1878. 

Charf.es McGuffey Hepburx, Virginia, '80, graduated at Davidson 
College in 1878. In 1880 and 1881 he was in charge of tlie preparatory de- 
partment of Davidson College. He studied law and was admitted to the 
bar at Cincinnati in 1881 and practiced tliere until 1903. From 1897 to 1903 
he was a lecturer on tlie Code and Common Law Pleading at the Cincinnati 
r,aw School. Since 1903 lie has been professor of Law at the University of 



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Indiana. He is the author of "Historical Development of Code Pleading in 
America and England," and "Cases on Code Pleading." His services to the 
Fraternity have been numerous and varied. He was an associate editor of 
the Beta Theta Pi in 1882 and 1883 and its editor from 1885 to 1893. He 
vras a member of the board of directors from 1886 to 1892 and of the board 
of trustees from 1892 to 1895. He v^as vice president of the conventions 
of 1886 and 1891. He resides at Bloomington, Ind. 

William Richard Hereford, Randolph-Macon, '91, did not graduate. 
He took a course at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar 
in 1893. He is a journalist. He began newspaper work on the Kansas 
City Times in 1890; he was on the editorial staff of the New York Re- 
corder in 1895; on the editorial staff of the New York Journal from 1897 
to 1902 and an editor on the New York Herald from 1902 to 1904. He 
was editor of the European edition of the New York Herald from 1904 to 
1907. He was Paris correspondent for the New York World from 1908 to 
1913. He is the author of "The Demagog" and "When Fools Rush In." 
His present address is New York City. 

*David Gilkeson Herron, Hanover, '54, settled in Mississippi and be- 
came a planter. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as a private 
in the 9th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, and served until 1863. After 
the war he was until 1874 principal of the preparatory department of the 
Universitj^ of Kentucky. From 1875 to 1883 he was professor of Mathe- 
matics at Purdue. In 1883 he went to Charles, So. Dak., and engaged in 
farming and died there in 1902. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
the University of Kentucky in 1867. 

*JoHN Williamson Herron, Miami, '45, was born May 10, 1827. Un- 
til 1848 he studied law and was then admitted to the bar, taking up his 
residence in Cincinnati. He was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1873. He was United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Ohio from 1889 to 1894. He was elected to the Ohio Senate and served 
from 1895 to 1897. He always took a great interest in the affairs of Miami 
and was a member of its board of trustees from 1860 to 1912 and was 
president of the board from 1880. He was a member of the board of di- 
rectors of the Fraternity from 1879 to 1892 and of the board of trustees 
from 1892 to 1897. He was president of the Fraternity from 1879 to 1893. 
He died in 1912. 

Henry Johnson Hersey, Boston, '84, graduated with the degree of 
A. B. He also obtained his LL. B. cum laude at Boston in 1886. He has 
been a practicing lawyer in Denver ever since his graduation. He has had 



WILLIAM HOWARD HICKMAN 155 

charge of many important litigations and is counsel for many large cor- 
])orations. He was deputy attorney general of Colorado in 1903 and 1904. 
He resides in Denver, Colo. 

Walter Lowrie Hervey, Denison, '84, graduated at Princeton in 
1886. From 1886 to 1889 he taught Latin and Greek in various prepara- 
tory schools. From 1889 to 1891 he was professor of history and dean of 
the faculty at tiie New York College for the training of teachers. From 
1891 to 1897 he was president of the Teachers' College. From 1894 to 
1899 he was dean of the Chautauqua School of Pedagogy. Since 1899 he 
has been an examiner of the New York Board of Education. He is a mem- 
ber of the National Council of Education, a member of the executive board 
of the Religious Educational Association, and is a well known writer and 
lecturer on educational subjects. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Princeton in 1892. He resides in New York City. 

Howard George Hetzi.er, Michigan, '86, from 1886 to 1905 was con- 
nected with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad as civil engineer 
until 1895, then as roadmaster at Chicago until 1899, then as superin- 
tendent of the Chicago terminals until 1903 and superintendent of the 
Chicago division until 1905. He was president of the Metropolitan West 
Side Elevated Railroad of Ciiicago from 1905 to 1910 and since then he 
has been president of the Chicago & Great Western Railroad. He re- 
sides at Hinsdale, 111. 

*Hexry Bascojf Hibbex, DePauw, '51, graduated at Transylvania 
and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. From 1854 
to 1859 he was an assistant professor of I>anguages at DePauw and from 
1859 to 1860 professor of Mathematics. From 1860 to 1861 he was pro- 
fessor of English at the University of Indiana. When the war broke out 
he entered the Union army as chaplain of the 11th Indiana Yohuiteers. 
In 1864 he was appointed a chaplain in the United States navy and served 
until his death at the Brooklyn Navy Yard June 14, 1890. He was a pro- 
fessor in the United States Naval Academy from 1864 to 1866 and from 
1869 to 1871. 

WiM.iAai Howard Hickmax, DePauw, '73, studied at the theological 
schools at Evanston, 111., and Boston, and entered the ministry of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church. He has held pastorates at LaFayette, Attica, Del- 
phi, Frankfort, South Bend and Terre Haute, Ind. He was presiding elder 
of the Crawfordsville, Ind., District from 1886 to 1889, and delegate to the 
general conferences of 1892, 1896, and 1900. He has built many churches 
and college buildings. He was pastor of the First Congregational church at 



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Jamestown, N. Y., from 1905 to 1912. He was president of Clark University 
(Atlanta, Ga.), from 1890 to 1893. He was president of the board of trus- 
tees of the Chautauqua Institution from 1903 to 1907. He has been a trus- 
tee of DePauw University and of, the Chautauqua Assembly. He received 
the degree of D. D. from DePauw in 1889, and was chancellor of DePauw 
from 1897 to 1903. During the war he served in the Union army from 1862 
to 1865. He was Prohibition candidate for governor of Indiana in 1912. He 
resides at Pennville, Ind. <I> B K. 

*JoHN Junior Higiit, DePauw, '54, and Indiana, '54, was a Metho- 
dist Episcopal clergyman in the active pastorate from 1854 to 1862, and 
1865 to. 1875. From 1862 to 1865 he was chaplain of the 58th Indiana 
Volunteers United States army, and from 1875 to 1886 an editor of the 
Western Christian Advocate. He received the degree of D. D. from De- 
Pauw in 1871, and was a trustee of DePauw from 1878 to 1886. He wrote 
a history of the regiment in which he served as chaplain. He died at Cin- 
cinnati Dec. 18, 1886. 

Frank Pierce Hill, Dartmouth, '76, is a specialist in library work. 
From 1881 to 1885 he was librarian of the library at Lowell, Mass. ,In 
1885 he organized the first free public library in I^ew Jersey at Paterson. 
In 1888 and 1889 he was librarian of the library at Salem, Mass., and from 
1889 to 1904 librarian of the Newark, N. J. free library. Since the latter 
date he has been the librarian of the Brooklyn, N. Y. public library. For 
a number of years he was secretary of the American Library Association. 
In 1906 he received the degree of Doctor of I^etters from Dartmouth. He 
resides at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Elijah Clarence Hir.LS, Cornell, '92, was a fellow in Romance Lan- 
guages at Cornell during 1892-93, and student at the University of Paris in 
1898 and 1894. From 1896 to 1901 he was dean of Rollins College, Florida. 
Since 1902 he has been professor of Romance Languages at Colorado Col- 
lege. He was a lecturer at Harvard in 1911. He received the degree of 
Ph. D. from the University of Colorado and Litt. D. from Rollins College 
in 1906. He is the author of "De La Ortografia y Pronunciation Inglesas," 
"Bardos Cubanos," "Canadian French," "Spanish Grammar," "New Mexi- 
can Spanish," "Spanish Tales for Beginners," "Spanish Stories," "Spanish 
lyyrics," "The Pike's Peak Region in Song and Myth" and "Ollanta" (a 
Quichua drama) . # B K. 

Oscar Armstrong Hills, Wabash, '59, graduated with a degree of 
A. B. Then he took a course in theology at the Western Theological Sem- 
inary of Pittsburgh where he graduated in 1862. He is now a retired 




WILLIAM H. HICKMAN 
DePauw '73 




ROBERT R. 
DePauw 



HITT 

55 



PHILIP II A. \ SOX HISS, JR. 157 

Presbyterian clergyman. Some of the churches he was pastor of were the 
North church of Pittsburgh from 1878 to 1881; First church of Santa 
Barbara, 1881 to 1882; First church of San Francisco from 1882 to 1883; 
Wooster, Ohio, from 1885 to 1898, and the Westminster church of Woos- 
ter from 1898 to 1907. He has been a director of the Western Theological 
Seminary since 1878 and a trustee of the University of Wooster since 
1885. He was given the degree of D. D. by Wabash College in 1876. He 
is the author of several books. He resides at Wooster, Ohio. 

Thomas McDougall Hills, Wooster, '02, is professor of Geology at 
Ohio State University. 2 S. 

*IsAAC Newton Himes, Washington & Jefferson, '53, after graduation 
attended the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania and then the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, receiving an M. D. de- 
gree in 1856. He began practice in Cleveland, Ohio, but when the war 
broke out became a surgeon in the Union army, leaving the army in 
1865 as major in the 73d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He then went abroad 
and for two years studied at Berlin, Vienna and Paris. From 1867 to 1895 
he was professor of Pathology in the medical school which afterwards be- 
came a department of Western Reserve University and for several years 
was dean of the school. He was a prolific writer on medical subjects. He 
died at Cleveland in 1895. 

GusTAV Detlef Hinrichs, Iowa, '68, was educated mainly in Germany. 
From 1863 to 1887 he was professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, 
from 1889 to 1903 at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and from 1903 to 
1907 at St. Louis University. In 1875 he established the first state weather 
service. He has served as an expert witness in the state and federal courts. 
He is a member of the learned societies having to do with his specialty. He 
is the author of "The Proximate Constituents of the Chemical Elements," 
"La Matiere est Une," "Absolute Atomic Weights," and many other books, 
and has been a voluminous contributor to scientific journals in Englishj 
German and French. He resides in St. Louis. 

*AiTGrsTiNE Crist Hirst, Hanover, '61, entered the ministry of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and moved to California. From 1886 to ISOa 
he was president of the University of the Pacific. He died at Chicago in 
1902. 

*Phii.ip Hansox Hiss, Jr., Johns Hopkins, '91, graduated in medi- 
cine from Columbia in 1896. He was at once appointed an assistant in 
bacteriology in the Medical Department at Columbia, and was ad- 



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vanced until he became professoi- of Bacteriology in 1906, a po- 
sition which he held until his death in 1913. He became famous by his 
methods of detecting typhoid bacilli and by the use of leucocyte extract 
as a cure for pneumonia and erysipelas. He was bacteriologist of the 
health department in New York City from 1896 to 1899. He was the 
author of a text-book on "Bacteriology." 

*Henry LaWrence Hitchcock, Western Reserve, was an honorary 
member of the chapter, admitted while he was a professor. He graduated 
from Yale in 1832 and from the Lane Theological Seminary in 1837. From 
1855 to 1873 he was professor of Natural Theology and Christian Evidence 
at Western Reserve and also president of the college. He died at Hudson, 
Ohio, July 6, 1873. 

* Isaac Reynolds Hitt, DePauw, '49, studied law at Chicago and 
was admitted to the bar in 1851. For a number of years he resided at 
LaSalle, 111. He was one of the founders of the Republican party and 
was a delegate to its state convention at Bloomington. When the war 
broke out he entered the secret service and acted under the direct orders 
of General Grant. After the war he returned to Chicago. In 1872 he 
founded the Woman's College at Northwestern University. He was deeply 
interested in science and was a member of a number of learned societies. 
From 1875 to 1880 he was park commissioner of Chicago and from 1880 to 
1909 was state land agent of Illinois. He died at Washington, D. C, June 
13, 1909. 

*RoBERT Roberts Hitt, DePauw, '55, and Indiana, '55, from 1861 to 
1871 was a stenographer at Washington, and in the latter year was ap- 
pointed stenographer to the Santo Domingo Expedition. From 1871 to 
1874 he was private secretary to Gen. Oliver P. Morton, Miami, '47, then 
in the United States Senate. From 1875 to 1881 lie was first secretary of 
the legation at Paris. In 1881 he was appointed assistant secretary of 
state, but resigned to run for Congress, in which he served from 1882 to 
1905 as a member from Illinois. In July 1898 he was one of the com- 
missioners appointed to establish the government of Hawaii upon its 
annexation to the United States. He died in 1906. 

*George Hoadly, Western Reserve, '44, graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1845. He settled in Cincinnati. From 1851 to 1853 he was 
judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati and also from 1859 to 1866. He 
was city solicitor in 1855-56. He rapidly rose in his profession and became 
one of the leading lawyers in the United States. In 1876 he was the advocate 




GEORGE HOADLY 

Western Reserve '44 




AUGUST HOCH 
Johns Hopkins '90 



ARTHUR srLLIV.lXT JIOFFMAX l59 

for Tilden and Hendricks before the electoral commission. From 1884 to 
1886 he was governor of Ohio. In 1887 he moved to New York City, where 
he died in 1902. He received the degree of I.L. D. from Western Reserve, 
Dartmouth and Yale. He was president of the fraternity convention of 
1847. * B K. 

Ernest Bryaxt Hoag, Northwestern, '92, attended Stanford Univer- 
sity in 1892-93, and the University of Wisconsin in 1898. He received the 
degree of M. D. in 1902 and since that date has been a practicing physician 
in Pasadena, Cal., from 1902 to 1909, and now at Berkeley, Cal. He was 
city bacteriologist of Pasadena in 1904-5 and medical director of its schools 
form 1907 to 1909. Since 1909 he has been medical director of the Berkeley 
schools and lecturer on hygiene at the University of California. He is the 
author of "Technique in Histology and Bacteriology" and "Health Studies." 
August Hoch, Johns Hopkins, '90, graduated in medicine from the 
University of Maryland in 1890. He was a student of the Universities at 
Strassburg, Leipzig and Heidelberg in 1893 and 1894. From 189.5 to 190.5 
he was an assistant physician at the McUean Hos]>ital, Waverly, Mass. 
From 1902 to 1905 he was an instructor in Neuro-Patliology in the Tufts 
Medical College. From 1905 to 1909 he was first assistant physician and 
special clinician at the Bloomingdale Hospital, N. Y., and from 1905 to 
1909 instructor in Psycliiatry at the Cornell University Medical School, 
New York City. Since 1910 he has been director of the Psychiatric Insti- 
tute of the New York State Hospitals for the Insane at Ward's Island, 
and professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University. In 1908-09 he was presi- 
dent of the New York Psychiatrical Society. He has written many arti- 
cles on subjects relating to his specialty. 

Robert Wii.t.iam Hochstetter, Cincinnati, '95, after graduation 
pursued post-graduate studies in chemistry at the Polytechnic at Zurich, 
Switzerland. He is vice president of the Ault & Wiborg Company. He 
was vice president of the American Chemical Society in 1901 and its 
president in 1902. He resides in Cincinnati. 

Percy Hodge, Western Reserve, '92, graduated from the Case School 
of Applied Science in 1894 and received the degree of Ph. D. from Cor- 
nell in 1908. He was for some years assistant professor of Physics at 
Columbia, and is now professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute. He 
resides in Hoboken, N. J. S S. 

Arthur Sui.livant Hoffman, Ohio State, '97, is editor of the Adven- 
ture Magazine, published by the Ridgeway Company. He resides in New 
York Citv. * B K. 



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Benjamin Franklin Hoffman, Missouri, '84, is professor of Ger- 
manic Languages at the University of Missouri, and resides at Columbia, 
Mo. * B K. 

*Henry Williabi Hoffman, Washington & Jefferson, '46, after grad- 
uation studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was elected a repre- 
sentative from Maryland to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, 
and served from 1855 to 185T. He was defeated for re-election. He was 
elected sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives and served from 
1857 to 1861. He was collector of customs at Baltimore from 1861 to 1866. 
He then resumed the practice of the law at Cumberland, Md., and was a 
United States Commissioner from 1872 to 1883 and city attorney from 1878 
to 1882. He was a judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Maryland from 
1883 to the time of his death in 1895. 

Robert Hoffmann, Case, '93, is chief engineer of the Department of 
Public Service, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of the American Soci- 
ety of Civil Engineers. T B 11, 2 S. 

*William James Hoge, Ohio, '43, studied at the Union Theological 
Seminary and became a Presbyterian clergyman. He was professor of 
Mathematics at Ohio from 1848 to 1851. For four years he was pastor of 
the Westminster Presbyterian church at Baltimore, but in 1856 became 
professor of Biblical Instruction at the Theological Seminary at Hampden- 
Sidney. He received the degree of D. D. from Hampden-Sidney in 1856. 
He died at Petersburg, Va., July 5, 1864. 

*ALEXANnER QuARLEs HoLLADAY, Virginia, '59, studied at the Uni- 
versity of Berlin from 1859 to 1861. In 1861 he entered the Confederate 
army as second lieutenant of Infantry and rose to the rank of colonel be- 
fore the close of the war. From 1871 to 1875 he was a member of the Vir- 
ginia Senate. From 1875 to 1881 he was post master at Richmond, Va. 
From 1881 to 1884 he was president of the Stonewall Jackson Institute. 
From 1885 to 1888 he was president of the Florida State College. In 1889 
he organized the North Carolina College of AgriciUture and Mechancis 
Arts and became its president, a position which he retained until his 
death, which occurred at Raleigh, N. C, in 1909. 

s 

*Lewis Littlepage Holladay, Hampden-Sidney, '53, attended the Uni- 
versity of Virginia after his graduation and received his A. M. degree in 
1855. From 1855 to 1891 he was professor of Physical Science at Hampden- 
Sidney. He received the degree of LL. D. from Central University in 1885. 
He died July 21, 1891. 



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Edward Evekett Holland, Richmond, '79, graduated from the law de- 
partment of Richmond College in 1881, and practiced at Suffolk, Va. He 
was mayor of Suifolk from 1885 to 1887, prosecuting attorney for Nanse- 
mond county from 1887 to 1907, member of the Virginia Senate from 1907 
to 1911 and since 1911 a member of Congress. He resides at Suifolk, Va. 

Richard Carmichael Hollyday, Washington and Lee, '79, is a rear- 
admiral in the navy. He studied law after his graduation and practiced at 
Baltimore. In 1894 he entered the navy as a civil engineer with the rank of 
lieutenant and was advanced until he was created a rear-admiral in 1907. 
He is chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. He resides at Washington. 

Charles Vey Holmax, Harvard, '82, Maine, '02, graduated at the 
University of Maine Law School and received the degree of Master of 
Laws in 1903. From 1882 to 1886 he was editor and proprietor of the 
Roxbury Advocate and from 1890 to 1903 of the DaUy City Press of Wo- 
burn, Mass. He was the founder of the Harvard Daili/ Echo and its edi- 
tor in chief from 1879 to 1880. From 1901 to 1903 he was a professor in 
the Maine Law School. Since 1902 he has been a lecturer in the Boston 
I>aw School. In 1910 and 1911 he was state geologist of Maine, and chair- 
man of the Maine State Survey Commission. In 1913 he was the dele- 
gate from Maine to the 12th International Geological Congress. He is a 
member of the Nova Scotia Mining Society, the American Electro-Chem- 
ical Society and a number of scientific and legal societies, including the 
Fraternity of Gamma Eta Gamma, of which he was high chancellor for five 
years. He has been a voluminous contributor to the press on legal, scien- 
tific and political subjects. He resides at Rockland, Maine. 

*Jesse Lynch Holman, Wabash, '49, after his graduation became a 
farmer at Aurora, Ind. During the war he entered the Union army and 
was in succession captain, major and lieutenant-colonel of the 18th Indiana 
Volunteers. He died at Aurora, Ind., Aug. 12, 1883. 

William Hood, Dartmouth, '67, graduated with the degree of B. S. 
He started as, and still remains, a civil engineer. He was assistant civil 
engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad from 1868 to 1872. Then he 
went with the Southern Pacific Railway where he was assistant engineer 
from 1872 to 1875 and chief assistant engineer from 1875 to 1883? Tiien he 
went with the Central Pacific Railroad as assistant engineer in 1883 and 
chief engineer from 1883 to 1885. He is now chief engineer of the Southern 
Pacific Railroad and his offices are in San Francisco. 

*Henry Smart Hooker, Mississippi, '70, after graduation became a 
lawyer. He was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1875 to 1880 



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and of the Legislature from 1882 to 1888 and of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1890. He died in 1906 at Lexington, Miss. 

OsMAN Castle Hooper^ Denison, '79, graduated with degree of A. B., 
was associate editor of the Columbus Dispatch from 1880 to 1886; editor 
and part owner of the Columbus News from 1886 to 1893, and editorial 
writer on the Columbus Dispatch since liS93. He is a trustee of the Col- 
umbus Public Library and Denison University. He is author of "The 
Joy of Things." He resides at Columbus, Ohio. <i> B K. 

Thomas Williamson Hooper^ Hampden-Sidney, '55, graduated from 
the Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sidney in 1858 and entered the min- 
istry of the Presbyterian church. South, in which he is eminent. From 1863 
to 1865 he was a post chaplain in the Confederate army. Since 1872 he 
has been pastor of a church at Christiansburg, "Va. He has been for many 
years a trustee of the theological seminaries at Hampden-Sidney, Va., and 
Columbia, S. C. He is trustee also of the Tuskegee Institute. He is the 
author of many articles, addresses and sermons. He was orator before 
the Fraternity convention of 1858. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Roanoke in 1875. He resides at Christiansburg, Va. 

*Abner Crump Hopkiks^ Hampden-Sidney, '55, studied at the LTnion 
Theological Seminary and entered the ministry of the South Presbyterian 
church in 1860. He was pastor of a church at Martinsburg until 1862, 
when he became a chaplain in the 2nd Virginia Infantry in the Confeder- 
ate army. He was chaplain on the staflF of General Gordon (Georgia, '52), 
until 1865. From 1866 to 1911 he was pastor of the Presbyterian church at 
Charlestown, W. Va. He was moderator of a General Assembly of the 
Southern Presbyterian church in 1903, and was a trustee of the LTnion Theo- 
logical Seminary of A'^irginia. He was moderator of the Sjmod of Virginia 
ill 1881. He was a member of seven general assemblies of the Presby- 
terian church and chairman of many of its important committees. He was 
a member of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of 1892. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. in 1872. He died December 4, 1911, at Buena Vista, Va. 

(George) Scott Hopkins^ Kansas, '81, graduated with the degree of 
B. A. He attended the Columbia Law School from 1888 to 1884. He is a 
banker. He entered the banking business at Horton, Kansas, in 1887. 
He is president of the First National Bank of Horton and vice president 
of the Prudential State Bank of Topeka, Kansas. He was the trust officer 
and since 1913 has been president of the Prudential Trust Co. of Topeka. 
He has been president of the Kansas Bankers' Association since 1901. 
He resides at Topeka, Kan. 



oris ELLIS HOVEY 163 

Elijah Embree Hoss, Ohio Wesleyan, '(59, did not graduate, l)ut com- 
pleted his college course at Emory & Henry College, Virginia, and en- 
tered the ministry of the Methodist Church, South. Until 1876 he was pas- 
tor of various Methodist Churches at Knoxville, San Francisco, Cal., and 
Asheville, N. C From 1876 to 1881 he was president of Martha Washington 
College, Abingdon, Va. From 1881 to 1885 he was president of Emory & 
Henry College. From 1885 to 1890 he was professor of Theology at Van- 
derbiit. From 1890 to 1892 he was editor of the Nashville Christian Advo- 
cate, and since 1902 has been a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Emory and Henry in 1885, and LL. 
D. from Vanderbilt in 1902. 

Theodore Hough, Johns Hopkins, '86, was instructor and assistant 
professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute from 1893 to 1903. He 
was professor of Biology and director of the School of Science in Sim- 
mons College from 1903 to 1907. From 1893 to 1907 he was lecturer on 
Physiology and Personal Hygiene at the Boston Normal School of Gym- 
nastics. Since 1907 he has been professor of Physiology at the University 
of Virginia. He is the co-author of a work entitled "The Human Mech- 
anism,"" and the author of numerous papers on pliysiology and hygiene. He 
is a member of the American Physiological Society, tiie American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science and was vice president and chair- 
man of section K, 1913. * B K. 

*.ToHX ScHiERER HorGHAM, Wabash, '46, was professor of Physics at 
Franklin College, Indiana, from 184-8 to 1863, and of Physics and Applied 
Mechanics at the Kansas State Agricultural College from 1868 to 1872, of 
Chemistry and Physics at Purdue from 1872 to 1882 and of Physics at the 
Kansas State College from 1882 to 1894. He died at Manhattan, Kansas, 
in 1894. He was a member of the Society of Chemical Industry and of the 
American Chemical Society. He received the degree of ET>. D. from 
Franklin College in 1872. 

*JoHX Patterson Houston', Washington & Jefferson, '.56, moved from 
Pennsylvania to Minnesota after leaving college. During the war he was 
in tiie Union army as lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the 5th Minnesota 
Volunteer Infantry and served until its close, when he moved to Fayette, 
Miss., and became a farmer. He died of yoUow fever in 1866. 

Otis Em.is Hovey, Dartmoutli, '85, graduated with the degree of B. S. 
He also received his C. E. degree from Dartmouth in 1889. He is a civil 
engineer. He was instructor in Civil Engineering at Washington Univer- 
sitv, St. Louis, from 1889 to 1890. He was engaged on bridge designs in 



164 BETAS OF ACHIEVE3IENT 

the Mississippi Valley and other engineering work from 1890 to 1896. 
He was engineer for the Union Bridge of New York and Athens, Pa., 
from 1896 to 1900. Since 1900 he has been with the American Bridge 
Company of New York, first in the engineering department and from 1907 
to the present time as assistant cliief engineer. He is a member of the 
board of overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering (Dartmouth). 
He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He resides 
ai- Plainfield,. N. J. 

Daniel S. Howard, Jr., Brown, '02, Pennsylvania, '02, is president of 
the Emerson Shoe Company, Rockland, Mass. 

Jonas G. Howard, DePauw, '49, did not graduate at DePauw, but 
studied law at the Indiana Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 
1850. From 1862 to 1866 he was a member of the Indiana Legislature. In 
1868 and 1876 he was a presidential elector. From 1887 to 1891 he was a 
member of Congress. He is practicing law at Jeffersonville, Ind. 

Joseph Henry Howard, Butler, '82, attended the University of Indi- 
ana, graduating in 1888 and receiving the degree of A. M. in 1890. He 
studied at Stanford University and received the degree of Ph. D. there- 
from in 1899. He was assistant professor of Latin at Indiana University 
from 1894 to 1901, adjunct professor of Latin at the University of Ne- 
braska from 1901 to 1903, and professor of Latin at the University of 
South Dakota since 1903. Since 1905 he has been vice president for South 
Dakota of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. He 
is the author of "Quantitative Reading of Latin Verse," "Case Usage in 
Petronius' Satires." He resides at Vermillion, S. Dak. 

George Maxwell Howe, Indiana, '94, studied at the University of 
Leipzic from 1895 to 1898 and at the University of Berlin in 1905-06. From 
1893 to 1895 he was instructor in German at the University of Indiana 
and from 1900 to 1906 at Cornell. He was a Fellow in German at Dart- 
mouth in 1898-99 and at Cornell 1899-00. He was professor of French 
and German at Hobart in 1906-07 and at Colorado College since 1907, 
having been the head of the department since 1911. He is a member of 
the Archaeological Institute of America. He is the author of "German 
Prose Composition" and "A First German Book," and edited an edition 
of "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts." He resides at Colorado Springs, 
Colo. 

Albert Ellis Hoyt, Cornell, '88, attended Williams College before going 
to Cornell. After leaving college he became a journalist. From 1892 to 1895 




EDWARD E. HOLLAND 
Richmond '"» 




HUBER W. HURT 
Iowa Wesleyan '04 



WILLI.IM IS.LIC IITLL 165 

he was editor of the Lockport, N. Y., Sun. From 1895 to 1911 he was editor 
of the Albani) Artjus. Since 1911 he has been secretary to the New York 
State Conservation Commission. He resides at Albany, N. Y. 

Green Barki.ey Huddi.eston, Mississippi, ''fi^, was a private in the 
Mississippi Cavalry in the Confederate army before attending college. He' 
was a member of the Mississippi Legislature in 1876 and 1877, district at- 
torney from 1879 to 1887 and for many years district judge. He resides 
at Hattiesburg, Miss. 

*RoBERT NoBi.E HuDsox, Miami, '44, DePauw, '44, did not graduate at 
Miami, but moved to Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University, where 
he founded Delta Chapter. He was elected to the Indiana Legislature 
and served from 1847 to 1849, and 1853 to 1855. He became editor of the 
Terre Haute E.v press in 1856. In 1860 he was appointed financial agent 
of the State of Indiana at New York City and served two years. In 1862 
he entered the Union army as a colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of 
General Fremont. In 1863 he became colonel of the 133rd Indiana Volun- 
teers and served imtil the close of the war. In 1865 he resumed his posi- 
tion as editor of tlie Tere Haute E.rpress and retained it until the time 
of his death, whicli occurred Aug. 30, 1889. 

Spencer Shepard Hudson, Mississippi, '83, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He was district attorney at Yazoo City, Miss., in 1891 
and from 1910 to 1912 was attorney general of Mississippi. He resides at 

Vicksburg, Miss. 

♦George Gii.mer Hum,, Georgia, '47, studied civil engineering and en- 
gaged in railroad work. He built much of the Pennsylvania Railroad and 
of the Atlantic Great Western R. R. (now a part of the Erie system). He 
died at New York City October 16, 1885. 

William Isaac Hull, Johns Hopkins, '89, received the degree of Ph. 
D. from Johns Hopkins in 1892. In 1891 he studied at the University of 
Berlin, and in 1907 and 1908 at the University of Leyden. From 1896 to 
1897 he was superintendent of Summer Charities in New York City. From 
1892 he has been professor of History at Swarthmore College. From 1900 
to 1905 he was examiner in History for the College entrance board. He is 
the author of "Maryland, Independence and Confederation," "Handbook 
of Sociology" (with W. H. Tolman, Brown, '82), "History of Higher Edu- 
cation in Pennsylvania," "The Two Hague Conferences," "The New Peace 
Movement." He resides at Swarthmore, Pa. * B K. 



166 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Alfred Hume, Vanderbilt, '8T, took post-graduate work at Vanderbilt, 
receiving the degree of C. E. in 1888 and D. Sc. in 1890. From 1887 to 1890 
he was a fellow in Civil Engineering at Vanderbilt. Since 1890 he has been 
professor of Mathematics at the University of Mississippi, and since 1905 
vice chancellor of the same. In 1914 he was elected president of the En- 
gineering Association of the South. He resides at University, Miss. 

Wilson Theodore Hume, Wabash, '80, was a member of the Oregon 
Legislature from 1888 to 1892, and was district attorney for the 4th Judicial 
District of Oregon from 1892 to 1894. From 1888 to 1896 he was grand 
chancellor of the Knights of Phythias of Oregon and supreme representa- 
tive from 1889 to 1893. He is a lawyer and now practices in San Francisco. 

JoH^r Jacob Hunker, Naval Academy, '66, after his graduation rose 
through different ranks in the navy until he became a rear admiral and 
retired in 1906 after forty-five years' service. He resides at Put-in-Bay, 
Ohio. 

*James Benjamin Hunnicutt, Emory, '58, was appointed professor of 
Latin at Emory College in 1861, but resigned to enter the Confederate army, 
in which he served as a private until the close of the war in 1865. He then 
engaged in farming. In 1890 he became assistant commissioner of -agricul- 
ture for the state of Georgia and in 1891 professor of Agriculture at the 
University of Georgia, which position he retained until his death at Athens, 
Ga., December 18, 1904. 

* William Littleton Clarke Hunnicutt, Emory, '54, became president 
of Centenary College, La., in 1859, and remained as such until 1898. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Emory College in 1868. He died in 191C 
at Jackson, La. 

Reid Hunt, Johns Hopkins, '91 received the degree of Ph. D. in 1896. 
He graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore 
in 1896 and received from that college his degree of M. D. From 1892 
to 1896 he was a Fellow and instructor at Johns Hopkins. From 1896 to 
1898 he was a tutor at Columbia. From 1898 to 1904 he was associate pro- 
fessor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins. From 1904 to 1913 he was 
chief of division and professor of Pharmacology at the Hygienic Library 
of the United States Public Health Service. Since 1913 he has been pro- 
fessor of Pharmacology at Harvard. He has been a frequent contributor 
to scientific and medical journals, has written a number of government 
bulletins and has contributed to works on toxicology and therapeutics. He 
resides in Boston, Mass. * B K. 



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Samuel Hunt, Knox, '0'3, entered the Union army iininediately after 
graduation as major in the 9th Tennessee Cavalry. In 1865 he was made 
inspector-general of Tennessee. After the war he became a farmer. Later 
he moved to Texas and became general land sales agent for the Mis§ouri, 
Kansas & Texas Railway. He resides at Fort Worth, Texas. 

Jonx Cjahniss HuNTEii, Central, "(il, graduated from the Union 
Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1870 and entered the ministry of the 
Presbyterian church. He was pastor of a church at Georgetown, Ky., from 
1870 to 1888 and at Harrodsburg from 1888 to 1912 and since the last 
mentioned date has been pastor Emeritus of the same church. Since 1882 
he has been curator and secretary of Central University. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Westminster in 1882. Since 1892 he has been presi- 
dent of the board of trustees of the Kentucky Theological Seminary. He 
is the author of a work on "Compulsory Education." In 1863 he entered 
the Confederate army as a private and rose to the rank of captain before 
the close of the war. 

(Wiles) Robert Huxteu, Indiana, '96, after leaving college devoted 
himself to practical sociology. From 1896 to 1902 he was organizing 
secretary of the Chicago Bureau of Charities and from 1899 to 1902 was 
a resident of Hull House. In 1899 he was a resident of Toynbee Hall, 
London. In 1902-03 he was head worker at the New York City Univer- 
sity settlement. From 1902 to 1906 he was chairman of the New York 
Child Ivabor Commission. He is a member of the American Academy of 
Political and Social Science. He is the author of "Tenement Conditions 
in Chicago," "Poverty," "Socialists at Work," and "Violence and the 
Labor Movement." He resides at Noroton, Conn. 

HuBER WiLMA:>r Hurt, Iowa Wesleyan, '04, after leaving the Uni- 
versity, spent some time in graduate work at tlie Armour Institute of 
Technology and the University of Chicago. He then studied at the Uni- 
versity of Berlin. Returning to the LInited States he became an instructor 
at Iowa Wesleyan and a teacher in the higii school at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 
He then became field agent for the University and principal of the high 
school at Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was the foimder and for some time the su- 
perintendent of the high school at Lockport, 111. Leaving this class of 
work, he spent some time in solar research at the Yerkes Observatory and 
then became an exchange professor to Germany at Berlin, returning to this 
country to become professor of Philosophj' and Psychology and president 
of Lombard College, Galesburg, III. 



163 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*FRA>rK AvEUY HuTCHixs^ Beloit, '75, after leaving college took up li- 
brary work. From 1891 to 1895 he was librarian of the Department of Ed- 
ucation of Wisconsin, from 1895 to 1904 he was secretary of the Wisconsin 
State Free Library Commission and from 1904 to 1914 secretary of the 
department of public discussion in the University of Wisconsin Extension 
Division. He died at Madison, Wis., Feb. 5, 1914. 

William Hills Hutchins, Yale, '01, after his graduation studied paint- 
ing at Paris and Rome for several years and as a painter has contributed 
for some time to public expositions in New York and elsewhere. He be- 
came an actor and stage manager and in this capacity has served very 
many well known companies. In 1913 he was stage director of the Keith 
Theatre in Philadelphia and in 1914 of the Coburn Players. He has done 
much work as an art critic and has contributed in this connection to many 
periodicals. He is the author of a verse drama entitled "Jeanne D'Arc at 
Vaucouleurs." He received the degrees of B. F. A. from Yale in 1909. He 
resides in New York City. i> B K. 

Henry Morrow Hyde, Beloit, '88, is a journalist and editorial writer 
on the Chicago Tribune and Harper's Weekly. He is also editor of the 
Technical World. He is the author of a large number of boys' books, 
among others, "Animal Alphabet," "One Forty Two," "Confessions of a Re- 
formed Messenger Boy," "Through the Stage Door," "The Buccaneers," and 
'The Upstart." He resides at Blenheim, Va. 



Ferdinand Cowi.e Iglehaht, DePauw, '67, entered the ministry of the 
Methodist Episcopal church in 1870. He was pastor at SulHvan, New Har- 
mony, New Albany, Salem, Greencastle and Evansville, Ind., of the First 
Church, Bloomington, 111., 1882-83; the Delaware Avenue Church, Buifalo, 
N. Y., 1884-86; the Central Cluirch, Newark, N. J., 1886-90; Park Ave. 
Church, New York City, 1891-95; the Simpson Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
1896-97 ; the Trinity Church, Newburgh, N. Y., 1898-01 ; the Asbury Church, 
Tarrytown, N. Y., 1902, and St. Paul Church, Peekskill, N. Y., 1903-0-5. 
Since then he has been engaged in the work of the Anti-saloon League. He 
has been a frequent contributor to the religious press, is the author of the 
"Speaking Oak" and otlier works, and is one of the leading ministers of his, 
denomination. He resides at Dobb's Ferry, N. Y. 

*TnoMAS Conwix It.iFF, Ohio, '70, was a noted minister of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. From 1870 to 1901 he was a missionary in the Rocky 
Mountains, and from 1875 to 1901 was superintendent of the Utah Mission 
at Salt Lake City. He was an assistant of the Board of Home Missions and 
Church Extension of his church. In 1899 he was chairman of the committee 
which opposed the seating of Bingham H. Roberts as Congressman from 
l^tah. During the war he was a private in the 9th Ohio Volunteers and in 
1898 was chaplain in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Ohio in 1887 and DePauw in 1888. He holds the 
honor of having built and dedicated more churches than any other person in 
the United States. He died in 1913. 

HowAiiD Lyman Ingersoi.i., Case, '94, is a civil engineer of eminence 
and assistant to the president of the New York Central and Hudson 
River R. R. Co. He resides in New York City. 

Franklix Kir,SHAW Irwin, Stevens, '83, has been engaged in the 
practice of his profession in various capacities since his graduation. He 
was for a time connected with the Wisconsin Central Railway and has 
been superintendent of bridges and buildings of the New York, New 
Haven and Hartford Railroad and is now superintendent of bridges and 
buildings for the Boston and Maine Railroad at Boston. 

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Rogers Israel, Dickinson, '81, after graduation entered the ministry 
of the Protestant Episcopal church. From 1885 to 1892 he was rector of 
Christ Church, Meadville, Pa., and from 1892 to 1911 of St. Lulie's Church 
at Scranton, Pa. He was consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Erie in 
1911. He has been deputy to five general conventions of the Protestant 
Episcopal church. For ten years he was examining chaplain of the dio- 
cese of Bethlehem. He is a member of a number of denominational and 
civic organizations. He resides at Erie, Pa. * B K. 

*James Ferdinand Izlar, Emory, '55, studied law and practiced at 
Orangeburg, S. C. During the Civil war he was a captain in the Confed- 
erate army. From 1880 to 1889 he was a member of the State Senate of 
South Carolina, and from 1883 to 1889 its presiding officer. From 1889 to 
1894 he was circuit judge and from 1894 to 1900 a member of Congress. For 
a number of years he was chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com- 
mittee. He died at Orangeburg May 26, 1912. 




THOMAS C. ILIFF 
Ohio '70 




GEORGE BEN JOHNSTON 
Virginia '72 



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*flKxiiY Mici.vii.i.K Jackson, ^'ir}i•i^i<l Military Institute, '71, graduated 
at the ?]pisc'oj)al Theological Semiiuirv at Alexandria, Va., in 1873 and be- 
came a Protestant Episcopal clergyman. From 1880 to 1884 he was editor 
of the "Southern Pidpit." From 1891 to 1895 he was assistant bishop of 
Alabama and from 1895 to 1900 bishop of Alabama. He died at Eufaula, 
in 1900. He received the degree of D. D. from Randolph Macon College 
in 1888 and from the University of the South in 1891. 

RiCHAHD Harrisox Jacksox, ^'irg•inia, '90, attended the United States 
Naval Academy and entered the navy where he now holds the rank of 
commander. He may l)e addressed care of the Navy Dejiartment at 
Washington. 

Robert Dyas .Jacksox, California, '82, became a mining engineer. 
From 1896 to 1904 he was professor of mining and metallurgy and dean 
of the mining department of the University of Nevada, and from 1900 to 
1904 was acting president of the University. He resides at San Fran- 
cisco. 

Thomas Wright Jackson'^, Amherst, '91, took a special scientific course 
for which he did not receive a degree. He took his M. D. degree at the 
JeflFerson Medical College of Philadelphia where he was a gold medalist. 
He practiced medicine in .\kron, Ohio, and in Philadelphia from 1892 to 
1898. He was appointed acting assistant surgeon of the U. S. Army in 
1898 and served as captain and assistant surgeon in the Spanish war. 
He has been a surgeon on the medical reserve corps of the U. S. Army 
since 1898. He is at present located in Manila where he is physician for 
the Bureau of Health of the Philippines. He is author of "Tropical Dis- 
eases," a book used as a text-book by the U. S. Army. 

*Edwin Ames Jaggard, Dickinson, '79, graduated from the Law De- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1882. In 1888 he became 
lecturer on Medical Jtirisprudence in the St. Paul, Minn., Medical Col- 
lege. From 1892 to 1911 he was a member of the law faculty of the 
University of Minnesota. From 1898 to 1904 he was judge of the Second 
District Court of Minnesota, and from 1905 to 1911 associate justice of 
the Supreme Court of Minnesota. He was the author of works on 

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172 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

"Torts," on "Taxation in Minnesota," and "Taxation in Iowa," and wrote "A 
History of the Anomalies in the Law of Libel and Slander." He was a 
frequent contributor to the legal periodicals and encyclopedias. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Dickinson in 1906. He died at St. Paul, 
Minn., in 1911. * B K, AX. 

*WiLLiA]M Wright Jaggard, Dickinson, '77, graduated in medicine from 
the University of Pennsylvania in 1880. He spent the next two years in 
studying medicine in Europe, principally at Vienna. In 1883 he began to 
practice at Chicago making a specialty of obstetrics and he was professor 
of Obstetrics at the Northwestern University Medical School until his death, 
which occurred at Chicago in 1896. 

Eldost Revere James^ Cincinnati, '96, graduated in law in 1899. From 
1900 to 1910 he was an instructor and from 1910 to 1912 professor of Law 
in the Cincinnati Law School. During 1912-13 he was professor of Law 
at the University of Wisconsin, and since 1913 professor of Law at the 
University of Minnesota. From 1910 to 1912 he was president of the 
Cincinnati Bureau of Municipal Research. He received the degree of S. 
J. D. fl-om Harvard in 1912. He resides at Minneapolis. 

Mark (Sylvester William) Jeffersox, Boston, '89, after spending 
five years in South America he went to Harvard where he took the de- 
grees of A. B. in 1897, and A. M. in 1898. He was superintendent of 
schools at I^exington, Mass., from 1893 to 1896. He was sub-master of the 
high school at Brockton, Mass., from 1898 to 1901. He has been professor 
of geography at the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, Mich., since 1901. 
He has been associate editor of the Journal of Geography since 1901. 

*Samuel Mitchell Jeffersok, Indiana, '74, graduated as valedictorian 
of his class. He received the degree of A. M. from Bethany College in 
1891. After his graduation from Indiana he studied theology and became a 
clergyman in the Church of the Disciples. From 1893 to 1896 he was pro- 
fessor of Biblical Literature at Bethany College. From 1896 to 1900 he was 
professor in and dean of the Berkeley, California, Bible Seminary and from 
1900 to 1914 professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University. He died 
at Lexington, Ky., Feb. 20, 1914. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
Bethany in 1896. 

BuRBis Atkins Jenkins, Bethany, '91, graduated from the Harvard 
Divinity School in 1896 and entered the ministry of the Christian (Dis- 
ciples) church and became pastor of a church in Indianapolis. From 1899 
to 1900 he was president of the University of Indianapolis. From 1901 to 



MARTIN NELSON JOHNSON 173 

1907 he was president of Kentucky, now Transylvania, University. Since 
1907 he has been pastor of the Linwood Boulevard church at Kansas City, 
Mo. He is tlie author of "Heroes of Faith." 

Daniel Edward .Texkins, Wooster, '87, graduated from the University 
of Melbourne, Australia, in 1889, and studied theology at the Theological 
Seminary at Melbourne and at the Princeton Theological Seminary, gradu- 
ating from the latter in 1891, and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
church. After serving as pastor of different churches imtil 1896, he became 
president of Parsons College at Fairfield, Iowa, remaining there until 1900, 
when he became professor of Theology at the Omaha Theological Seminary. 
From 1905 to 1906 he was a lecturer on Didactical Theology at Princeton. 
He resides at Omaha. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Washington 
& Jefferson in 1898, and D. D. from the University of Pittsburg in 1906. 

George Raymoxd Jexkixs, Beloit, '92, graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1896, and has since his graduation practiced law in Chicago. From 
1905 to 1912 he was secretary and treasurer of the Real Estate Title and 
Trust Company; from 1910 to 1913 he was professor on Sales, Suretyship 
and Probate Law in the Chicago Law Scliool. He is the author of "Lec- 
tures on Sales, Estates, Judgments, Real Property," and otlier subjects pub- 
lislied l)v the LaSalle Extension University. . 

*Leoxidas Morris Jewett, Ohio, '61, entered the Union army immedi- 
ately after his graduation as adjutant of the 61st Oliio Volunteer Infantry. 
He was successively promoted until at the close of the war he was a major. 
After the war he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1866. From 
1871 to 1874 he was probate judge of Athens county, Ohio, and from 1876 
to 1880 was prosecuting attorney of that county. He was many times 
chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Ohio. He was a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio University and was president 
or District VI of the Fraternity. He died at Athens, Ohio, Nov. 17, 
1906. 

*Walter Kexdali. Jewett, Brown, '91, graduated in medicine from 
Harvard in 1895. After practicing medicine a number of years he took up 
library work. He was at the state library at Albany for a considerable 
time. He became librarian of the L^niversity of Nebraska in 1905 and 
occupied that position until liis death which occurred in Lincoln, Neb., in 
1913. 

*Martix Nelsox Joiinsox, Iowa, '73, taught school in California 
from 1873 to 1875. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 



174 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

1876. In 1876 he was presidential elector and was elected to the Iowa Leg- 
islature, serving until 1878. He was a member of the Iowa Senate from 
1878 to 1882. In 1882 he removed to Dakota. In 1886 to 1890 he was 
District Attorney of Nelson County and was a member of the North 
Dakota Constitutional Convention of 1889. From 1891 to 1899 he was a 
member of Congress and from 1908 to 1909 a member of the United 
States Senate. He died in 1909. 

William Hamilton Johnsox, Kansas, '85, is professor of Education 
at the University of Kansas and director of School Relations for the edu- 
cational institutions of that state. He resides at Lawrence, Kan. * B K. 

George Bek Johnston, Virginia, '72, graduated in medicine from New 
York University in 1876. He is an eminent surgeon and resides at Rich- 
mond, Va. He is professor of Gynecology at the Medical College of Vir- 
ginia, and surgeon and chief-of-staff to the Memorial Hospital. He has 
been president of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association and 
of the American Surgical Association. He is a Fellow of the International 
Surgical Society and of the American Surgical Association, and was pres- 
ident of the Medical Society of Virginia and of the Richmond Academy of 
Medicine. He is also president of the Order of the Cincinnati in Virginia. 

William Dawson Johnston, Brown, '93, studied sociology at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago in 1893 and 1894. He was then an instructor of History 
at Michigan until 1897, when he went to Harvard, receiving the degree of 
A. M. in 1898, Litt. D., Rutgers, 1911. He then became instructor in His- 
tory at Brown, but gave up the position in 1900 to become one of the 
assistants in the library of Congress. In 1907 he became librarian of the 
Bureau of Education, and from 1909 to 1913 he was librarian of Colum- 
bia University. He is now librarian of the Public I>ibrary at St. Paul, 
Minn. He has been a lecturer at the Simmons College library School. 
He is the author of the "History of the library of Congress," 1904, "Spec- 
ial Collections in Libraries in the U^nited States," 1912, and a frequent 
contributor to professional journals. $ B K. 

Chaules J. Jones, Western Reserve, '84, became a civil engineer, 
making a specialty of railroading. He is chief engineer of the Aurora, El- 
gin and Chicago R. R., and resides at Wheaton, 111. 

*JoHN Augustus Jones, Emory, '44, studied law and began to practice 
at Columbus, Ga. He was a member for a short time of the lower house 
of the Georgia Legislature. At the outbreak of the war he entered the 
Confederate army and became colonel of the 14th Georgia Infantry. He 
was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 




WM. DAWSON JOHNSTON 
Brown '93 




RAT.FH K. JONES 
Maine '86 



ISAAC WILSON JOYCE 175 

Jonx Caiu.kton .Ioxks, Westminster, '79, was professor of Latin at 
Westminster College from 1880 to 1882. Since tlien he has been connected 
with the University of Missouri as assistant professor of Latin and Greek, 
from 1883 to 1887; as associate professor of Latin from 1888 to 1891; as 
professor of Latin, and since 1900 as dean of the College of Arts and Sci- 
ence. He was acting president of the University from 1905 to 1906. He 
received the degree of Ph. D. from Westminster in 1891 and LL. D. from 
the University of Missouri in 1908. He attended Johns Hopkins University 
in 1882 and 1883, tlie University of I^eipzig in 1895 and 1896, and the Uni- 
versity of Munich in 1903 and 1904. He is a member of the American Phil- 
ological Association, the American Archaeological Institute, and of the man- 
aging committee of the American School for Classical Studies in Rome. He 
has contributed many articles to philological journals. ^ B K. 

Ralph Kneei.axd Joxes, Maine, '86, from 1888 to 1894' was assistant 
secretary of the Kellogg Seamless Tube Company, Findlay, Ohio. Since 
1897 he has been librarian of the University of Maine. In 1898 he was 
editor of the Maine Bulletin. He is a member of the American Library As- 
sociation, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Maine Library 
Association, and was president of the latter in 1903-04. His services to the 
Fraternity have been numerous and important. From 1892 to 1897 he was 
alumni secretary of tiie Fraternity and a member of tlie executive com- 
mittee. In 1893-94 he was a member of the board of trustees and in 1894 
was assistant catalog editor. He resides at Orono, Maine. 4> K <I>. 

Sebastiax-^ Chatha'm Joxes, Centre, '87, Cornell, '87, after leaving col- 
lege was head master of the Cayuga I>ake Military Academy from 1887 to 
1889. He was division engineer of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. from 
1889 to 1894 and since 1894 has been superintendent of the New York Mil- 
itary Academy at Cornwall, N. Y., one of tlie largest and most successful 
preparatory schools in the country. 

*IsAAC Wii-sox Joyce, DePauw, "72, was an lionorary member of De- 
Pauw Chapter, initiated in 1872, when he received the degree of A. M. He 
became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1859. He was pas- 
tor at sundry charges in Indiana until 1875. In 1880 he removed to Cin- 
cinnati and was pastor of St. Paul's and Trinity Churches in that city. He 
was president of the U. S. Grant University from 1875 to 1880. He 
was elected a bishop of the church in 1888 and resided at Minneapolis until 
his death, which occured in 1905. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Dickinson in 1876 and I>I>. D. from the University of the Pacific in 1889. 



K 



Joiix BoYNTox K.MSKit, Western Reserve, '08, graduated at the New 
York State liibrary School in 1!)1(), and attended tlie graduate school in 
political science at the University of Illinois in 1912-13, where he was also 
a librarian. He is now librarian of the public library at Tacoma, 
Wash. He is author of "The National Bibliograjiliies of the South 
American Republics," and "Law, Legislative and Municipal Reference Li- 
braries." <I> B K. 

*Henhy Soi.o.'mon Kai.ey, Wittenberg, '71, graduated from tiie law 
department of the University of Michigan in 1873. He was United 
States consul at Callao for a time and also at Chemnitz, Germany. Dur- 
ing 1881 and 1882 he was a member of the Nebraska Legislature and 
president of the Nebraska State Board of Education. During the war 
he was a sergeant in the r23d Ohio ^'olunteer Infantry in the Union army. 
He died at Chemnitz Aug. 28, 1882. 

Jacob Iattheu Kai.ky, Wittenberg, '76, moved to Nebraska after his 
graduation and studied law. In 1879, while yet a very young man, he was elect- 
ed county judge of Franklin County, Nebraska, serving until 1882. He was a 
member of the Nebraska I>egislature from 188.5 to 1887, and prosecuting at- 
torney of Douglass County, Nebraska, from 1892 to 189-5. He was president 
of the Nebraska State Board of Insanity from 1898 to 1902. He is prac- 
ticing law and resides at Omaha, Neb. 

Joseph Hoeixg Kasti.e, Johns Ho]>kins, '88, graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Kentucky in 1884. He received his Ph. D. in chemistry from 
Johns Hopkins in 1888. From 1888 to 190.5 he was professor of Chemistry 
at Kentucky University. From 190.5 to 1909 he was chief of the Chemical 
Division of the Ignited States Hygienic I^aboratory at Washington. From 
1909 to 1911 he was head of the chemical department at the LTniversity of 
Virginia. In 1911 he became head of the Division of Chemical research of 
the Kentucky Agricultural Experimental Station, and in 1912 was appoint- 
ed director of the station and dean of the College of yVgriculture at the 
LTniversity of Kentucky. He is the author of books on "The Chemistry of 
Metals" and "The Chemistry of Milk." He resides at Lexington, Ky. 

Chart.es Augustus Keeler^ California, '93, is an author and poet 
residing at Berkeley, Cal. He is the author of "Evolution of the Colors 

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178 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

of North America Land Birds," "Southern California," "Bird Notes 
Afield," "San Francisco and Thereabouts," "Tahiti, the Golden," "The 
Simple Home," "The Triumph of Light," "San Francisco Through Earth- 
quake and Fire," "The Promise of the Ages," "The Siege of the Golden 
City," "Idyls of El Dorado," "A Wanderer's Song of the Sea," "Elfin 
Songs of Sunland," etc. 

*George Frederick Keene, Brown, '75, graduated from the Harvard 
Medical School in 1879 and made a specialty of nervous diseases. He was 
superintendent of the Rhode Island State Insane Asylum from 1886 to 
1905. He died at Howard, R. I., in 1905. <!> B K. 

Samuel Smith Keller, Wittenberg, '88, was professor of Mathematics 
in Wittenberg from 1889 to 1895, was a special student at Yale from 1895 
to 1896 and professor of Mathematics at Wittenberg from 1889 to 1895. 
Since which date he has been professor of Mathematics at the Carnegie 
Technical Schools in Pittsburg. 

*HoRACE Agard Kelley, Iowa Wesleyan, '70, graduated in law at the 
Iowa University Law School in 1872 and practiced at Burlington, Iowa. He 
was general solicitor for the Burlington and Northwestern and the Burling- 
ton & Western Railway Companies. He died in 1908. 

*Day Otis Kellogg, Kansas, '73, was a member of the local organiza- 
tion which was the foundation of the Kansas Chapter. He was a graduate 
of Hobart in the class of '57. He graduated from the theological sem- 
inary at Alexandria, Va., in 1860, and entered the ministry of the Epis- 
copal church. He was rector of churches at Bridgeport, Conn., Philadelphia, 
Pa., and Providence, R. I. He was professor of History at the University 
of Kansas from 1870 to 1874, and president of Griswold College from 1880 
to 1898. He received the degree of D. D. from Kansas in 1874. He died 
at Vineland, N. J., in 1904. He was the orator of the Fraternity conven- 
tion of 1880. 

*WiLLiAM PoTTs Kennett, Westminster, '72, was a banker and resided 
in St. Louis, Mo. From 1880 to 1891 he was secretary of the Commission 
Company of D. R. Francis & Bro. Since 1906 he was president of the 
German-American Bank and of the Merchants Exchange. He died in 1912. 

Abram Tucker Kerr, Cornell, '95, received the degree of M. D. 
from the University of Buffalo in 1897. In 1898 and 1899 he studied at 
the University of Gottingen and the next two years at Johns Hopkins. 
During a part of the time, from 1897 to 1900, he was acting professor and 




BENJAMIN A. KIMBAI^L 
Dartmouth '54 




JOHN RBILY KNOX 
Miami '39 



BEXJJMIX JMES KIMBALL 179 

demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Buffalo. From 1900 to 
1904 he was assistant professor of Anatomy, and since 1904 he has been 
professor of Anatomy and secretary of the faculty of the Cornell Univer- 
sity Medical College at Ithaca, N. Y. 2 S. 

Charles Volney Kerr, Stevens, '88, graduated from the Western Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1884. After his graduation at Stevens he was 
for a year an instructor in the chemical laboratory. During 1888 and 1889 
he was instructor in mathematics at the Pratt Institute. From 1889 to 1891 
he was assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Western Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, and from 1890 to 1896 professor of Mechanical 
Engineering at the Arkansas Industrial University. From 1896 to 1902 he 
was professor of Engineering at the Armour Institute, and for the next two 
years was with Westingliouse, Church, Kerr & Co. in New York City. Since 
1904 he lias been chief engineer of the Kerr Turbine Co. at Wellsville, N. Y. 

Robert Floyd Kerr, DePauw, '77, after graduating from college, 
taught school at Kentland, Ind. From 1879 to 1881 he was professor of 
Englisli at Too Gijuku College, Hirosaki, Japan. In 1885 he became prin- 
cipal of the preparatory department of the South Dakota Agricultural 
college and from 1886 to 1892 was professor of History and Economics at 
that college. In 1892 and 1893 he took a post graduate course in econom- 
ics at the University of Chicago. From 1899 to 1904 he was librarian and 
instructor in Civics at the South Dakota Agricultural College. In 1905 
and 1906 he was private secretary to the governor of South Dakota. From 
1909 to 1912 he was editor of the Minnesota and Dakota Farmer. He wa9 
a member of the I>egislature of South Dakota in 1911-13. He was one of 
the founders of the South Dakota Historical Society and at one time its 
]iresident. He is the author of "Block Map and Manual of South Da- 
kota." He is regarded as a specialist in matters relating to South Da- 
kota. He is now engaged in general business and newspaper work. He 
resides at Brookings, S. D. 

Bexjamix Ames Kijibaij., Dartmouth, '54, after graduating from col- 
lege engaged in railroad work and continued active in it until 1865, since 
wliich time lie has been engaged in the business of manufacturing car 
wheels and metal casting. Since 1879 he has been a director of the Concord 
Railroad and since 1895 he has been president of its successor, the Concord 
& Montreal Railroad. He is a trustee of the Merrimac County (N. H.) 
Savings Bank and president of the Mechanics' National Bank. He is pres- 
ident of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Since 1894 he has been 
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180 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

finance committee. He was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional 
conventions of 1876, 1889 and 1896. He was a member of the governor's 
council for two j'ears and has declined the nomination for governor. He 
resides at Concord, N. H. 

Robert Augustus King^ Western Reserve, '85, did not graduate, but 
took his A. B. degree at Hamilton College. He taught school one year and 
then attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he 
graduated in 1889. He studied at Berlin for one year and then became pro- 
fessor of German at Wabash College, where he is now located. * B K. 

WiLSOX Sherman Kinnear^ Kansas, '84<, during 1888 and 1889 was 
assistant chief engineer and acting chief engineer for the North and South 
American Construction Company on railroad work in Chile. From 1890 
to 1910 he was with the Michigan Central Railroad Company successively 
as assistant engineer, principal assistant engineer, assistant superintend- 
ent, assistant general superintendent, chief engineer and assistant general 
manager. From 1905 to 1910 he was also chief engineer of the Detroit River 
Tunnel Company, in which position he built the great railroad tunnel under 
the river at Detroit. From 1910 to 1912 he was president of the Kansas 
City Terminal Railway Company. Since May, 1912, he has been president 
of the United States Realty and Improvement Co. of New York City. He 
received the degree of C. E. from the University of Kansas in 1907. 2 S. 

William Metcalf Kixsey, Monmouth, '69, graduated from the Law 
Department of the University of Iowa in 1871 and was admitted to the 
bar and moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he has since resided. From 1889 
to 1891 he was a member of Congress, but was defeated for re-election. 
Since 1907 he has been judge of the Circuit Court of the city of St. I>ouis. 
He is a lecturer in the Institute of Law of St. Louis LTniversity. 

George Herbert Kixsolvistg, Virginia, '70, graduated at the Episcopal 
Theological Seminary at Alexandria in 1874 and entered the ministry of the 
Protestant Epicopal church. He was rector of St. Mark's Church, Balti- 
more from 1875 to 1878, St. John's Church, Cincinnati, from 1878 to 1881, 
tbt Church of the Epiphany at Philadelphia from 1891 to 1892, and was 
elected assistant bishop of Texas in 1892, and since 1893 has been bishop of 
Texas. He has received the degree of D. D. from the University of the 
South and of S. T. D. from Griswold College. He resides at Austin, Texas. 

Robert Allex Kinzie, California, '97, is general superintendent of 
the Treadwell Mine, Douglas Island, Alaska. 



J any rkily kxox i8i 

William Hamilton Kirk, Johns Hopkins, '93, rect-ived tin- degree of 
Ph. D. in 1895 and became professor of Greek at Vanderbilt University. 
Since 1901 he has been professor of Latin at Rutgers College. He resides in 
New Brunswick, N. J. * B K. 

•Daniki. KutKwoon, Indiana, "19, was an honorary member of the 
Indiana chapter, initiated while he was professor of Mathematics at that 
institution. He was tutor in sundry academies from 1838 to 18.51, at which 
time he became professor of Mathematics in Delaware College. In 185G 
he became professor of Mathematics in the University of Indiana, a po- 
sition which he retained except for an interruption of one year, when he 
was professor of Washington-Jefferson college, until 1886, at which time he 
was made emeritus professor. He was a mathematician and astronomer 
of note. He was the author of "Kirkwood's Analogy," "A Treatise on 
Comets and Meteors," "Asteroids or Minor Planets," and was a contribu- 
tor to astronomical and mathematical journals and to "Appleton's Cyclo- 
pedia." He died at Riverside, Cal., in 189.5. 

*Samuel Jabez KiHKWooi), Indiana, 'fil, received his Master's degree 
in 1864. He was superintendent of public schools at Cambridge, Ohio, 
Bucyrus, Ohio, and Tiffin, Ohio, until 1870, when he became professor of 
Mathematics and Astronomy at Wooster University, a position which he 
held until his death in 1900, which occurred at Wooster, Ohio. He re- 
ceived the degree of LI>. D. from George Washington University in 1876. 

Kemper K(ossuTn) Knapp, Wisconsin, "79, graduated with the degree 
of B. S.; he also graduated in law at Wisconsin in 1882. He has practiced 
law in Chicago ever since 1882, being the senior member of the firm of 
Knapp & Campbell. He is general counsel and director of the Illinois 
Steel Co., and of the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Ry Co. He is a 
director of banks and different corporations. He resides in Chicago. 

*JoHN Reily Kxox, Miami, 39, studied law and was admitted to the 
bar at Greenville, Ohio, in 1843, and he settled down to practice at that 
place. From 1859 to 1864 and 1869 to 1898 he was one of the trustees of 
Miami University. In 1860 he was a presidential elector. He was the 
founder of the Fraternity and intensely interested in its welfare. He was 
a member of the Fraternity's board of directors from 1879 to 1892 and 
of the board of trustees from 1892 to 1897, and was president of the Fra- 
ternity from 1893 to 1897. He was president of the convention of 1890. 
He died at Greenville Feb. 7, 1898. 



182 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Hexry Barnakd Kummel, Beloit, '89, attended Harvard after his 
graduation and received his Master's degree in 1892. He then attended the 
University of Chicago, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1895. From 1889 
to 1891 he was instructor in the Beloit Academy. From 1891 to 1892 he 
was an instructor in the Geological department at Harvard. From 1892 to 
1895 he was a Fellow in Geology at the University of Chicago. From 1892 to 
1898 he was an assistant geologist at the New Jersey State Geological Sur- 
vey. From 1889 to 1902 he was an assistant professor at the Lewis Insti- 
tute, Chicago, and since 1902 has been state geologist of New Jersey. He is 
a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, and from 1908 to 1913 was presi- 
dent of the Association of American State Geologists. Has written numer- 
ous reports, chiefly on the geology of New Jersey. He resides at Trenton, 
N. J. * B K. 




JOSEPH R. LAMAR 
Bethany '77 




CHARLES B. LANDIS 
Wabash '83 



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Joiix Alexander Lacy, Washington and Lee, '72, practiced law and 
was admitted to the bar at Sedalia, Mo., where for some years he was a 
judge of probate. He is now chief of the Board of Pension Appeals in the 
Department of the Interior in Washington. 

Joseph Rucker Lamar, Bethany, '77, Washington and Lee, '77, af- 
ter his graduation at Bethany attended the law school in Washington 
& Lee University. From 1886 to 1889 he was a member of the Legisla- 
ture of Georgia. In 1893 he was selected as one of the commissioners to 
revise the civil code of Georgia and in 1895 he prepared a number of im- 
portant general statutes. From 1903 to 1905 lie was a member of the Su- 
preme Court of Georgia. He resigned in that year. In 1910 be became a 
member of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is the author of 
"A History of the Organization of the Supreme Court (of Georgia)," "I>ife 
of Judge Nesbet," "Georgia's Contribution to Law Reforms," "A Century's 
Progress in Law." He was general secretary of the Fraternity for two 
years. 

Thaddeus Booth Lampton, Mississippi, '89, is a merchant and banker 
residing at Magnolia, Miss. In 1903 and 1904 he was state treasurer of 
Mississippi. 

Charles Beary Landis, Wabash, '83, was editor of the Logansport 
Journal from 1883 to 1887, then of the Delphi Journal. He was a member 
of Congress from 1897 to 1909. He resides at Delphi, Ind. 

*Melville DeLancey Landon, Colgate, '61, did not graduate, but 
moved to Union College, from which he graduated in 1861. He served as a 
clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington and at the beginning of 
the war he helped organize the Clay Battalion for the defense of the city. 
I^ater in 1861 he regularly entered the army and served until 1864 on the 
staif of Gen. A. L. Chetlain, being promoted for bravery to the rank of 
major. From 1864 to 1867 he was a cotton planter in Louisiana and Ar- 
kansas. In 1868 he traveled in Europe and in 1869 was secretary of the le- 
gation at St. Petersburg. On his return to this country in 1870 he pub- 
lished the first "Eli Perkins" book, a humorous prophecy entitled "Sara- 
toga in 1901." This he followed with "The History of the Franco-Prussian 

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184 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

War," which made a strong impression and won him considerable popular- 
itJ^ His first really notable humorous book was "Wit, Humor and Pathos," 
published in 1875. In 1880, came "Wit and Humor of the Age," and in 1887 
"Kings of Platform and Pulpit." Others of his works are "Thirty Years of 
Wit," "Fun and Fact" and "China and Japan." His last work was "Eli 
Perkins on Money: Gold, Silver or Bimetallism," published in 1895, when 
free silver was a popular theme. He was for some time' a regular con- 
tributor to "The Commercial Advertiser" and later president of the New 
York News Association. As a lecturer he was once known all over the 
United States. He died at Yonkers, N. Y., Dec. 16, 1910. 

William Barker Landreth, Union, '81, from 1881 to 1884 was en- 
gineer of the Sinaloa & Durango Railway of Mexico. From 1884 to 1887 he 
was city engineer of Schenectady, N. Y., and from 1887 to 1889 was en- 
gineer of the Board of Public Works of Amsterdam, N. Y. From 1889 to 
1897 he was in charge of large engineering projects at White Plains, Port 
Jervis and Jamestown, N. Y., Athens, Pa., and Waverly, N. Y., and from 
1897 to 1909 has been engaged in engineering work on the New York state 
canals, having for the last nine years of that time been the special resident 
engineer. Since 1909 he has been special deputy state engineer of New 
York state. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
and many other professional organizations, and has been a large contribu- 
tor to technical journals. He resides in Schenectady, N. Y. 

Ira Laxdrith, Cumberland, '88, studied law after his graduation and 
received the degree of LL. B. in 1889. He then studied theology and be- 
came a clergyman in the Cumberland Presbyterian church. From 1890 to 
1895 he was assistant editor and from 1896 to 1903 ~the editor of the Cum- 
berland Prebyterian. He was moderator of the last General Assembly of 
the Cumberland Presbyterian church, at which time that denomination was 
united with the Presbyterian church in the United States. Since 1906 he 
has been president of Belmont College, Nas.hville, .Tenn. He has been 
prominent in prohibition work and chairman of the anti-saloon League, 
whose efforts led to the adoption of prohibition in Tennessee. He was also 
chairman of the "Committee of 100" which reformed many of the conditions 
of civic life in Nashville. In 1893 and 1894 he was general secretary of the 
Religious Educational Association. He received the degree of LL. D. in 
1903 from Cumberland and of D. D. from Trinity LTniversity in 1906. He 
resides at Nashville. 

Charles Lapham, Wisconsin, '81, is district engineer of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company and is located at Milwaukee, 
Wis. 



GEORGE WILLIAM LASHER 185 

*Ja>ies Wiisox Lahijiore, Mic-liigHii, '54., for a short time attended 
Hampden-Sidney College. He received his degree of A. B. from the Uni- 
versity of the City of New York. He attended the theological seminary 
at Princeton and entered the Presbyterian ministry. During the war he 
was chaplain of the 9th Iowa Cavalry ^in the Union army. From 1868 to 
1874 he was editor of the'Chicago Evening Journal and on October 9, 1871. 
at the time of the Chicago fire', puhtished tiie only newspaper in Ciiicago. He 
was founder of the Watchman. He was professor of Physics and principal 
of the Cook county high school from 1877 to 1888, and later of the North 
Side high school until 1891. '"From 1891 to 1894 he was engaged in busi- 
ness as a manufacturer of chemicals. He died in Chicago May 30, 1894. 

*WiLi.iAM Clarke I>arrabee was an lionorary member of DePauw 
Chapter, admitted in 1846 while he was a i)rofessor of Mathematics. 'He 
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1828 and was principal of the Academy 
at Alfred, Maine, in 1828, of the Cazeriovia Seminary at Oneida, N. Y., in 
1831, and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary in 1835. He -was also for a short 
time a professor at Wesleyan University. From 1840 to 18.52 he was 
professor of Mathematics at DePauw and from 18.52 to 1857 emeritus 
professor of Oriental Languages. He was superintendent of public in- 
struction for Indiana from 18.52 to 1854 and 1856 to 1859, and superin- 
tendent of the Indiana Institute for the Blind from 1854 to 1856. He was 
an ardent Methodist and was editor of the Ladies' Reposilorif and author 
of "Wesley and his Coadjutors" and "Asbury and his Coadjutors." He 
received the degree of LL. D. from McKendree College. He died dt 
Greencastle May 4, 1859. 

*Joiix Moore ImRue, DePauw, '49, studied law and settled at La- 
fayette, Ind. He was a member of the lower house of the Indiana Leg- 
islature from 1857 to 1859 and of the upper house from 1874 to 1878. He 
was judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1867 to 1873 and of the 
Superior Court from 1880 to 1888. He died at Lafayette in 1906. 

George Wii.t.iam Lasher, Colgate, '57, graduated from the Hamilton 
Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister of the Baptist churcii 
in 1859. Since 1871 he has been editor of the Journal and Messenger and 
resides at Cincinnati. He received the degree of D. D. from Colgate in 1874 
and LL. D. from Georgetown College in 1908. During the war he was a 
chaplain of U. S. Volunteers. He has served churches at Norwalk, Conn., 
Newburgh, N. Y., Haverhill, Mass., and Trenton, N. J., while in the active 
ministrv. He is the author of "Theology for Plain People," "What did 



186 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Peter Mean?" etc., etc. He received the degree of D. D. in 1874 and LI.. D. 
in 1906 from Colgate. He resides at Cincinnati, O. * B K. 

*MiLTON Slocum Latham, Washington & Jefferson, '45, was born at 
Columbus, Ohio, May 23, 1827. He graduated from Jefferson College in 
1845 and moved to Russell County, Ala., where he taught school and stud- 
ied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and appointed circuit court 
clerk. He moved to San Francisco in 1849 and became clerk of the 
Recorder's court in 1850, and district attorney for the Sacramento district 
in 1851. He was elected to Congress from California as a Democrat, de- 
clining a re-election. He was appointed collector of San Francisco and 
served from 1855 to 1859. He was elected governor of California in 1859, 
inaugurated in January, 1860, and on January 11 elected a United States 
senator, taking his seat March 5, 1860, and serving until March 3, 1863. 
He was president of the Bank of California and of the London and San 
Francisco Bank. In 1877 he moved to New York where he was president 
of the Mining Exchange. He died March 4, 1882. 

Claude Hervey Lavixder, Randolph-Macon, '94, graduated in medi- 
cine from the University of Virginia in 1895, and became in 1912 a 
surgeon in the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. 
He is the foremost authority on Pellagra in America. He may be ad- 
dressed care of the Army Department, Washington, D. C. 

*Rynd Edward Lawder, Ohio Wesleyan, '64, attended the Cincinnati 
Law School and graduated in 1866. He was in the Union army during the 
war and became major of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. At the close 
of the war he became first lieutenant in the 7th United States Cavalry. 
From 1879 to 1885 he was collector of Customs at Mexico, Mo., when he 
retired and became a farmer. He died at Mexico, Mo., Oct. 16th, 1890. 

Curtis Lee Laws, Richmond, "89, graduated at the Crozer Theological 
Seminary in 1893, and became a clergyman of the Baptist church. He 
was a clergyman in Baltimore from 1893 to 1908 and at the Greene Ave. 
Church of Brooklyn from 1908 to 1912. Since 1912 he has been editor of 
the Watchman-Examiner in New York City. 

Samuel Spahr Laws, Miami, '48, was born in Virginia in 1824. He 
was valedictorian of his class at Miami. He studied theology, law and 
medicine, graduating at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1851, the 
Columbia Law School in 1870 and the Bellevue Hospital Medical College 
in 1875. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1851 and became 
pastor of the West Church at St. Louis. In 1854 he became a professor in and in 



FRKDFAtlC SCHILLER LEhJ 187 

1855 president of Westminster College, Mo. From 1876 to 1889 he was presi- 
dent of the University of Missouri, and from 1893 to 1898 a professor in 
the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C. He has been a 
prolific writer on many subjects and , was the inventor of the apparatus 
used in reporting news known as the "ticker." In 1882 he was appointed 
visitor to the Military Academy at West Point. He has received the de- 
gree of LL. D. from Westminster College and D. D. from Washington and 
Lee. He is residing at Washington, D. C. 

Frank Morbii.i, Lay, Knox, 93, Amherst, '93, is secretary and gen- 
eral manager of the Boss Manufacturing Co. of Kewanee, 111., the largest 
concern in the world making husking gloves and mittens. 

Roger Leavitt, Beloit, '82, graduated with the degree of A. B. He 
is a banker. He is vice president of the Cedar Falls National Bank, vice 
president of the Cedar Falls Trust Company and of the Cedar Falls Build- 
ing and Loan Association. He is also director and treasurer of the Cedar 
Falls Canning Co. He is a member of the Iowa State Board of Education 
and a trustee of the Chicago Theological Seminary and Grinnell College. 
His home is in Cedar Falls, Iowa. 'P B K. 

Ernst Joseph Lederi.e, Columbia. ■86, has devoted his attention mainly 
to sanitation and cliemical work connected therewith. He was chemist of 
the New York Health Department from 1899 to 1902, and commissioner of 
health from 1902 to 1904, and president and commissioner of the Depart- 
ment of Health of N*ew York from 1910 t') 1914. He is the principal owner of the 
Lederle Laboratories, an institution designed for the investigation of chem- 
ical, sanitary and bacteriological matters. He received the degree of Ph. D. 
in 1895 from Columbia and Sc. D. in 1904. He resides in New York. 

Bi.EWETT Lee, Virginia, '85, graduated at the Mississippi College of 
Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in 1883 and in law at the University of 
Virginia in 1885. He received the degree of LL. B. from Harvard in 1888. 
From 1888 to 1890 he was private secretary to Justice Horace Gray of the 
United States Supreme Court. He practiced law at Atlanta, Ga., from 1890 
to 1893. He was professor of liaw at the Northwestern University from 
1893 to 1901 and the University of Chicago from 1902 to 1903. From 1902 to 
1909 he was general attorney and since 1909 has been general solicitor for 
the Ilinois Central Railway Co. He resides at Chicago. 

Fredekic Scitit.t.er Lee, St. Lawrence, '78, graduated at Johns Hop- 
kins in 1885 with the degree of Ph. D., specializing in Physiology. In 1885 
and 1886 he attended the University of Leipzig. In 1886 and 1887 he was 



188 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

instructor in Biology at St. Lawrence. From 1887 to 1891 he was instructor 
in Physiology at Bryn Mawr. Since 1891 he has been connected with the 
Physiological department of Columbia, first, as a demonstrator, then as an 
assistant professor; since 1904 as a full professor, and since 1911 as the 
head of the department. He is a member of many learned societies, an(3 
one of the editors of the American Journal of Physiology and of the Colum- 
bia University Quarterly. He is the author of "Physiology— the Vital Pro- 
cesses in Health," "In Sickness and in Health," "The School of Medicine," 
in "A History of Columbia University," "Reproduction" in "An American 
Text Book of Physiology;" "Fatigue" in "The Harvey Lectures, 1905-06;" 
and ''Scientific Features of Modern Medicine." He is the editor and trans- 
lator of a number of foreign scientific works, and a constant contributor to 
scientific journals. He resides in New York City. # B K, S S. 

JoHJs- Clarence Lee, St. Lawrence, '76, graduated at Harvard in 1878 
and at the Canton Theological School in 1880. From 1880 to 1884 he was 
in the active ministry of the LTniversalist church. He was professor of Eng- 
lish Literature at Lombard from 1884 to 1896, serving as vice president the 
last four years of his term. He was president of St. Lawrence LTniversity 
from 1896 to 1899 and since the latter date has been pastor of the church 
of the Restoration at Philadelphia. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
St. Lawrence in 1895, and S. T. D. from Tufts in 1896. He is the author of 
"The Beginnings of St. Lawrence University." "I" B K. 

*Lesi.ie Alexander Lee, St. Lawrence, '72, after* graduatiqn studied 
at Harvard, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1875. From 1876 to 1908 
he was professor of Biology and Geology at Bowdoin. From 1881 to 1887 
he was connected with the United States Fish Commission and was chief 
of staff on the voyage of the steamer. Albatross, from Norfolk, Va., in 
1887 through the Straits of Magellan. He was director of the Bowdoin 
Expedition to Labrador in 1891 which rediscovered the long-sought-for 
Grand Falls. He was chairman of the Topographical Survey Commission 
of Maine. He was state geologist of Maine. He died May 20, 1908, at 
Portland, Maine. 

James Thomas Lees, Western Reserve, '86, graduated from Johns Hop- 
kins in 1889 with a degree of Ph. D. and became professor of Greek at the 
University of Nebraska, a position which he now holds. He is a member of 
the Classical Association of the Middle West. He is the author of "Meta- 
phor in Aeschylus," "The Rhetorical Element in Euripides," "An Archaeo- 
logical Expedition to Sicily and Greece," and "A Defense of Greek." He 



CHARLES HENRI LEONARD 189 

has been president of the Inter-fraternity Council of the University of Ne- 
brasi<a since its organization in 1905. 4> B K. 

George I>efevre, Johns Hopkins, '91, after his graduation was Bruce 
Fellow in Zoology at Johns Hopkins for two years and received his Ph. 
D. degree in 1896. From 1897 to 1898 he was an assistant in Zoology at 
Johns Hopkins, and in 1898, 1899 and 1900 was instructor in Zoology at 
the Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, Mass. Since 1899 he has 
been professor of Zoology and Curator of the Zoological Museum of the 
University of Missouri. Since 1906 he has been a member of the investi- 
gating staflF of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., and 
has also been connected with the United States Bureau of Fisheries. He 
has contributed many articles to scientific journals on subjects connected 
with his specialties. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science and a member of a number of other learned soci- 
eties. <!> B K, 2 H. 

Charles Wesley Ij:ffixgwell, Knox. '62, from 1862 to 186.5 was vice 
principal of a military school at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then attended 
the Nashotah Theological Seminary, graduating in 1867, and entered the 
ministry of the Episcopal church as an assistant rector at St. James 
Church, Chicago. In 1868 lie founded and has since been the rector of St. 
Mary's School, Knoxville, III. He also founded and has been the rector of 
St. Alban's School for boys. He received the degree of D. D. from Knox in 
1875 and I>L. D. in 1912. From 1879 to 1900 he was the editor of The 
Lii'inf/ Church, a denominational weekly published at Chicago. He resides 
at Pasadena, Calif. 

JoHx Jacob Lextz, Wooster, '81, attended the University of Michi- 
gan and graduated from the Columbia Law School in 1883. He was ad- 
mitted to tlie bar and settled at Columbus, Ohio. Since 1896 he has been 
president of the American Insurance Union. He was a member of Con- 
gress from 1897 to 1901. 

Charles Hexri Leoxard, Syracuse, '72, graduated from the Medical 
Dcjiartment of Wooster University in 1874. Since 1880, he has been pro- 
fessor of Medicine and Surgery and Gynaecology at the Detroit College of 
Medicine and since 1883 editor of Leonard's Illustrnfed Medical Jour- 
nal. He is a member of a large number of learned societies. He is the 
author of a number of professional manuals, including "Pocket Anatomist," 
"Reference and Dose Book," "The Hair and Its Diseases," "Manual of 
Bandaging," "Materia Medica and Therapeutics" and a series of five Phy- 
sicians' Accoimt Books. He resides at Detroit, Mich. 



190 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Nathast Ransom Leonard, Iowa, '67, graduated at Yellow Springs 
College and at Harvard. He became professor of Mathematics at the Uni- 
versity of Iowa in 1863 and continued as such until 1887. From 1866 to 
1868 he was acting president of the University. He was state superintend- 
ent of "Weights and Measures from 1875 to 1887 and was city engineer of 
Iowa City for several years. From 1887 to 1906 he was editor of the Ga- 
zette at Fort Wayne, Ind. From 1906 to 1911 he was president of the Mon- 
tana School of Mines. He resides at Butte, Mont. 

William Ellery Channing Leonard, Boston, '98, received an A. M. 
degree from Harvard in 1899. He was a Fellow in Philology at Boston, and 
then studied at the Universities of Bonn and Gottingen. He received the 
degree of Ph. D. from Columbia in 1904. He was an instructor in Eng- 
lish at the University of Wisconsin from 1906 to 1909 and an assistant pro- 
fessor since then. He is the author of "Byron and Byronism in America," 
"Sonnets and Poems," "The Fragments of Empedocles," "The Post of Gal- 
lilee," "The Vaunt Man and Other Poems," "Aesop and Hyssop" (fables in 
humorous rhymes), "Glory of the Morning," (an Indian play), and editor 
of Parkman's "Oregon trail," and has ready for the press a blank verse 
translation of Lucretius. He was one of the editors of Lippincott's English 
Dictionary and has been a frequent contributor to magazines. 

Winifred George Leutner, Western Reserve, '01, graduated at Johns 
Hopkins in 1905. He is now dean of Adelbert College and assistant pro- 
fessor of Greek and Latin at that college. He resides at Cleveland, Ohio. 
*BK. 

Charles Cameron Lewis, Jr., Hampden-Sidney, '87, is a wholesale 
merchant at Charleston, W. Va. From 1887 to 1889 he was secretary and 
treasurer of Kelly's Creek Coal Co., and treasurer of the Kanawha and 
Michigan Railway. During the war with Spain he was a colonel of West 
Virginia troops. 

*Edwin Rufus Lewis, Wabash, '61, graduated at Amherst College in 
1861, and graduated in medicine from the Harvard Medical School in 
1867. He also graduated at the Union Theological Seminary in New York 
City in 1871. From 1871 to 1884. he was professor of Chemistry at the 
Protestant College at Beirut, Syria, and from 1884 to 1888 was professor 
ill Wabash College. During the war he was successively a private, adjutant 
and captain in the 21st Massachusetts Infantry. He was the author of 
works on Chemistry, Geology and Music in Arabic. He died at Madison, 
Ind., in 1907. He was a Fellotw of the Royal Geographical Society of 
Great Britain. 




WINFRED G. LEUTNER 
Western Reserve '01 




ROBERT E. T.EWIS 
Westminster '80 



JOHN \Vh:SLI<:y LI.XDS.IV 191 

Edwin Seelye Lewis, Wabash, '88, received tlie degree of Pli. D. from 
Johns Hopkins in 1892 and I.L. B. from the New Yorlv University in 1907. 
From 1890 to 1891 he was a fellow in Romance I^anguages at Johns Hop- 
kins; from 1891 to 1892 he was an instructor, and from 1892 to 1898 an as- 
sistant professor. From 1898 to 1907 he was professor of Romance Lan- 
guages at Princeton. He is now practicing law in New York City. 4> B K. 

*Miles Walker Lewis, Emory, '12, after graduation studied law and 
settled at Greensboro, Georgia. From 18.51 to 18.5.5 lie was a member of the 
lower house of the Georgia Legislature and from 1855 to 1861 of the upper 
house. In 1861 at the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate ser- 
vice and rose from a lieutenant in the 14th Georgia to be a colonel and aide 
to Governor Brown of Georgia. He was a member of the Georgia Consti- 
tutional Convention of 1877. He died at Greensboro Aug. 24, 1880. 

Richard Welbouune Lewis, Cumberland, '85, graduated from the 
L^niversity of Temiessee in 1882 and entered tlie ministry of tlie Cum- 
berland Presbyterian church. He was state superintendent of Sunday 
Scliool work in Texas in 1891-2; manager of the Weatlierford Chautauqua 
and editor of the Enc((mpment Herald. From 1896 to 1901 he was pastor 
of the First Cumberland Presl)yterian church, Denver, Colo. He is the au- 
thor of "All Aboard or Where Traveling and Why?" 1900; "What's a 
Man?" 1910; "Harnessing Young Colts, or Breaking Two-legged Bronchos," 
1911. In 1909 he founded Cumberland College, Cumberland, New Mexico, 
and has been president of its board of directors ever since. He is known as 
the "Children's Evangelist," and has witnessed nearly ten thousand ]irofes- 
sions of religion among children in tlie last ten years of evangelist work. 

Robert Edgar Lewis, Westminster, '80, was admitted to the bar at 
Clinton, Mo., in 1880, and was prosecuting attorney of Henry County, Mo., 
from 1883 to 1887. In 1896 he was a candidate for governor of Missouri, 
but was defeated. From 1903 to 1906 he was judge of the Fourth Judicial 
District of Colorado, and since 1906 has been United States district judge 
for Colorado. He resides at Denver. 

*Joiix Wesley Lixdsay, Wesleyan, '40, graduated from the LTnion 
Theological Seminary in 1843 and entered the ministry of the Methodist 
church, and served as pastor of several churches in New York state until 
1847. From 1848 to 1860 he was professor of Latin and Hebrew at Wes- 
leyan. From 1860 to 1865 he was a pastor of various churches in New York 
City. From 1865 to 1868 he was president of Genesee College and from 1873 
to 1911 was connected with Boston University, first as dean of the faculty 



192 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

of the College of Liberal Arts until 1883, then as professor of Exegetical 
Theology, and after 1884 as Professor Emeritus. From 1884 to 1911 he 
was a professor in the Boston Theological Seminary. From 1888 to 1911 he 
was presiding elder of the Boston and North Boston Districts of the 
JMethodist church. He was a trustee of Wesleyan, Boston and Denver 
Universities. He was a member of many General Conferences of the Meth- 
odist church and a fraternal delegate to the Canadian Conference of 1870. 
He wrote very many sermons, addresses and lectures, but only one book, a 
"Commentary on Deuteronomy." He died at West Newton, Mass., in 1911. 

Samuel McCuste Lii^dsay, Pennsylvania, '89, from 1889 to 1894 studied 
at the Universities of Halle, Berlin, Vienna, Rome and Paris. He received 
the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Halle in 1892. In 1891 he was 
a delegate to the International Y. M. C. A. conference at the Hague; in 1894 
to the same conference in London. For a time he was professor of Sociology 
at the University of Pennsylvania and since 1906 has been professor of So- 
cial Legislation at Columbia. He was commissioner of education for Porto 
Rico from 1902 to 1904. He is a director of the New York School of Phil- 
anthropy, vice president of the American Academy of Political and Social 
Science and president of the Academy of Political Science in the City of 
New York. He has been a voluminous writer upon subjects relating to So- 
ciology, and is the author of "Railway Labor in the United States," 
"The Public School System in Porto Rico" and works on other subjects. 
He resides at Englewood, N. J. 

William Birckhead Lindsay, Boston, '79, graduated from the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology in 1881, and became a chemist. From 1885 
to 1910 he was professor of Chemistry at Dickinson College. He received 
the degree of Ph. D. from Boston in 1895. He was one of the joint authors 
of Storer's & Lindsay's Manual of Chemistry. $ B K. 

Walter Lee Lingle, Davidson, '92, attended the Union Theological 
Seminary of Virginia, and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
church. Has been pastor of Presbyterian churches at Dalton, Ga., Rock 
Hill, S. C, and Atlanta, Ga. He received the degree of D. D. from Dav- 
idson College in 1906. Since 1911 he has been professor of Old Testa- 
ment Interpretation at the Union Theological Seminary. He is president 
of the board of trustees of Davidson College. He resides at Richmond, 
Va. 

*AL03srzo Linn, Washington & Jefferson, '49, after leaving college 
studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary, graduating in 1854. 



CHARLES MANNING LITTLETON 193 

He was then for two years assistant professor of Mathematics at Lafay- 
ette College. From 1857, until his death in 1901, he was in the service of his 
Alma Mater as professor of Political Economy and History .from 1857 to 
1865, of Ancient Languages from 1865 to 1869, and of Greek from 1869. 
He was vice president of the college from 1870 to 1901. He received the 
degree of Ph. D. in 1869 and of LL. D. from I>afayette in 1880. 

*DAvm Linton, Miami, '39, after his graduation studied law at the 
Cincinnati Law School and graduated in 1840. From 1845 to 1847 he was 
prosecuting attorney of Clinton County, Ohio, and from 1851 to 1855 was 
a member of the Ohio Senate. After the war he moved to Pleasanton, 
Kans., and practiced law there. He was probate judge of Linn County, 
Kans., from 1867 to 1869. He died Aug. 10, 1889. He was an associate 
founder of the Fraternity. 

Joseph Bari,ow Lippincott, Kansas, '87, is an eminent authority on 
the irrigation of desert lands and conflicting water rights. After his 
graduation from college, he was engaged in railway work on the Santa 
Fe Railroad. Subsequently, for some four years, he was a topographer 
in the employ of the United States Geological Survey, and then be- 
came assistant engineer of the Bear Valley Irrigation Co., and for two 
or three years more devoted himself mainly or entirely to engineer- 
ing relating to irrigation projects. In 1902 he became supervising en- 
gineer for the Pacific Coast of the United States Reclamation Survey, 
and since 1906 has been the assistant chief engineer of the Los An- 
geles Aqueduct project. He has also been a consulting engineer with ref- 
erence to municipal water supply for the principal cities on tlie Pacific 
coast. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and 
the Association of Engineers and Architects of Soutliern California, of 
which he has twice been president, and is the author of many papers 
and pamphlets relating to his profession. He resides at I^os Angeles, Cal. 

*ARCHiBAi.n Alexander Little, Princeton, '44, received his A. M. 
degree in 1847, and became editor of the Fredericksburg, Va., Journal, a 
position which he retained until the time of his death in 1877. During the 
Civil War he served in the Confederate army, first as a colonel and 
ordnance officer for two years and later as aide to Governor Fletcher of 
Virginia. 

•Charles Manning Littleton, Washington, '69, studied medicine and 
in 1871 and 1872 studied at Paris, Vienna and Edinburgh. From 1875 to 
1881 he was professor of English Literature at Washington University. He 
died at St. Louis in 1881. 



194 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Jesse Talbot Littleton, Randolph-Macon, '80, was associate principal 
of a military college at Charleston, W. Va., from 1880 to 1881; professor of 
Modern Languages at Wesleyan Female College, Murfreesboro, N. C, for 
two j'^ears ; professor of Greek and German at Wofford College for three 
years; principal of the Bellhaven Academy for three years; professor of 
Modern Languages at the Danville, Va., college for young ladies from 1885 
to 1889; professor of English at Emory and Henry College from 1889 to 
1898, and professor of Modern Languages at Southern University from 
1898 to 1910. Since 1910 he has been professor of Modern Languages at 
the Woman's College of Alal)ania and Dean of the faculty. He resides at 
Montgomery, Ala. He received the degree of Ivitt. D. from Kentucky Wes- 
leyan College in 1902 and LL. D. from Emory & Henry College in 1908. He 
has published the story of Captain Smith and Pocahontas, a poem. 

*Joir>r Wesley Locke, DePauw, '45, became a Methodist Episcopal 
clergyman. From 1853 to 1857 he was president of Brookville College, 
Brookville, Ind. ; from 1860 to 1872 professor of Mathematics at DePauw 
and from 1874 to 1878 president of McKendree College. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Dickinson in 1868. He was very prominent in his 
denomination and was a delegate to its General Conference in 1860, 1868, 
1876, 1880, 1884 and 1890. He died at Lebanon, 111., in 1896. 

Gonzales I>odge, Davidson, '83, graduated from Johns Hopkins in 
1883 and received the degree of Ph. D. from that University in 1886. He 
was professor of Greek at Davidson from 1886 to 1888 and of Latin at 
Bryn Mawr College from 1889 to 1900. Since 1900 he has been professor 
of Latin and Greek at the Teachers' College at Columbia University. He 
is the editor of the Classical Weekly. He is the author of a "Lexicon Plau- 
tinum" and of a "Vocabulary of High School Latin." He has also edited 
a Latin Grammar and Composition and the Gorgias of Plato. He lives in 
New York City. 

James Elmore Logan, Missouri, '82, did not graduate but took a med- 
ical course at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York where 
he received his M. D. in 1884. He has practiced medicine in Kansas City 
ever since his graduation. He has been president of the faculty and the 
board of trustees, also professor of diseases of the nose and throat, at the 
University Medical College of Kansas City from 1885 to date. He was 
president of the yVmerican Laryngolical Association in 1910. He is a Fellow 
of the Kansas City yVcademy of Medicine. 

*IsAAC Jasper Long, Centre, '58, attended the Theological Seminary of 
the Presbyterian church at Danville, Ky., in 1858 and 1859, and the Semin- 




SAMUEL McCUNE LINDSAY 
Pennsylvania 'S9 




EDGAR O. LOVETT 
Bethany '90 



GEORGE LOOMIS 195 

ary of the same church at Cohimbia, S. C, from 1859 to 1860. He then be- 
came principal of the preparatory department of Centre College. When 
the war broke out he became a chaplain in the Confederate army and 
served throughout the war and also as pastor of a Presbyterian church at 
Concord, S. C. In 1867 he became a pastor of a Presbyterian church at 
Batesville, Ark., and in 1872 president and professor of Ancient Lan- 
guages at Arkansas College, located at tiiat place, which position he re- 
tained until 1891, at, which date he died at Batesville, Ark. He was the 
author of "An Outline on All Ecclesiastical History." He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Arkansas College in 1876. 

Joiix Harper Long, Kansas, '77, for three years after his graduation 
studied at diflferent German universities, receiving the degree of Sc. D. 
from Tubingen in 1879. From 1880 to 1881 he was instructor at Wesleyan 
University. Since 1881 he has been professor of Chemistry in the Medical 
Department of the Northwestern University and dean of the School of 
Piiarmacy of Northwestern LTniversity since 1913. He is the author of a 
large nimiber of text books on chemical subjects, including "Elements of 
General Chemistry," "Text-book of Analytical Chemistry," "Text-book of 
Urine Analysis," "Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry," "Text- 
i)ook of Physiological Chemistry," and "The Optical Rotating Power of 
Organic Substances." He was president of the American Chemical Soci- 
ety in 1903 and 1904. He was chemist of the Illinois Board of Healtli 
from 1885 to 1905. He is a member of the revision committee of the 
United States Pharmacopoeia and of the Referee Board of Consulting Sci- 
entific Ex))erts of the United States Department of Agriculture. He is a 
member of the Council on Piiarmacy and Chemistry of the American Med- 
ical Association. He resides at Chicago. <l> B K, 2 S. 

*Ei)MuxD lyOXGi.EY, Wcslcyau, '40, was tutor of Mathematics at Wes- 
leyan until 1844, when he became professor of English Literature and Mod- 
ern Languages at Emory and Henry College, Va., retaining this position 
until 1879. He then removed to Shelby ville, Ky., where lie taught school and 
engaged in general literary work, dying tiiere in 1886. 4> B K. 

*George lyoo^iis, Wesleyan, '42, was a teacher at the Genesee Seminary 
from 1842 to 1848 and its principal from 1846 to 1848. He was president of 
Wesleyan Female College from 1852 to 1860 and of Allegheny College from 
1860 to 1873. For four years he was a missionary at Canton, China. He 
was a trustee of Wesleyan from 1881 to 1886. He received the degree of 
D. D. from Genesee College in 1860. He died at Clifton Springs, N. Y., in 
1886. 4> B K. 



196 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Everett Wili.iaji I>ohd, Boston, '00, from 1902 to 1908 was assis- 
tant commissioner of Education of Porto Rico. In 1908 he became sec- 
retary for New England of the National Child Labor Committee. In 1913 
he organized the College of Business Administration of Boston University, 
of which he became associate dean and professor of Business Methods. He 
is the author of "Pedagogia Fundamental," "Lessons in English," "Child 
Labor in New England," "Children of the Stage." He is a member of the 
National Child Labor Committee. He resides in Boston. "J? B K. 

Henry Everard Losey, Knox, '61, graduated from the Albany Law 
School in 1867. In 1861 he enlisted in the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry 
in the Union army. In 1864 he became major of the 67th Colored Volun- 
teer Infantry and in 1865 and 1866 was lieutenant-colonel of that regiment 
and the 92nd Colored Volunteer Infantry. Since 1868 he has practiced law 
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was for several years president of the City 
Board of Water Commissioners, vice president of the Fallkill National 
Bank, and trustee of the Poughkeepsie Savings Bank. He resides at 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

James Lee Love, Johns Hopkins, '85, graduated from the University 
of North Carolina in 1884 and took his Master's degree at Harvard in 1890. 
From 1885 to 1889 he was assistant professor of Mathematics at the Uni- 
versity of North Carolina and from 1889 to 1911 was connected with the 
mathematical department of Harvard as an instructor and assistant pro- 
fessor. He had charge of the Harvard Summer School from 1899 to 1909 
and was assistant to the director of the summer session of Columbia in 1911 
and 1912. Since 1911 he has been manager of the Provident Teachers' 
Agency in Boston. He is the author of "Differential and Integral Calculus." 
He resides in Boston. 

Edgar Odeli. Lovett, Bethany, '90, from 1890 to 1892 was professor of 
Mathematics at West Kentucky College, but continued his studies and re- 
ceived the degrees of A. M. and Sc. M. from Bethany in 1892. From 1892 
to 1895 he was an instructor in Astronomy at the University of Virginia 
and in 1895 received from that University the degrees of Ph. D. and M. 
A. He then went to Europe and studied at the Universities of Leipzig 
and Christiania, receiving the degrees of Ph. D. and A. M. from the former 
University in 1896. In 1896 and 1897 he was lecturer in Mathematics at 
the University of Virginia and University of Chicago. In 1898 he became 
assistant professor of Mathematics at Princeton and in 1900 professor of 
Mathematics and in 1905 exchanged that chair for the chair of Astronomy, 
(succeeding Charles A. Young, Western Reserve, '60). In 1911 he became 



FRKDF.RICK liLlSS Ll'fjriFXS 197 

president of tlie Rice Institute at Houston, Texas. He is a member of a 
number of learned European and American mathematical societies and has 
written a large number of articles on matliematics, mechanics and astron- 
omy. He resides at Houston, Texas. 

Frank Oukkx Lowdex, Iowa, "85, graduated as valedictorian. He 
also graduated from Union College of Law as valedictorian in 1887, win^ 
ning first prizes for sciiolarship and oratory. He practiced law in Chicago 
until 1906. In 1899 he was a professor in Northwestern University School 
of Uaw. He was lieutenant-colonel of First Regiment Infantry, I. N. G., 
from 1898 to 1902 and a member of Congress from 1906 to 1911. He has 
been a delegate to a number of Republican National Conventions and a 
member of the Republican National Committee from 1904 to 1912. He re- 
sides at Oregon, Illinois. ^ B K. 

*Joiix HoGAHTH LoziEii, DcPauw, '57, became a Methodist Episco- 
pal clergyman. From 1861 to 1864 he was chaplain in the 37th Indiana Vol- 
unteer Infantry United States army. He was a major in the Indiana 
Legion from 1864. to 1865, and an agent of the Indiana State Sanitary 
Conunission in 1865. During the war he was a correspondent of the Cin- 
cinnati Cnmmerrial. After the war he was a correspondent of the Infer 
Ocean of Cliicago and the Christian Advocate. He was a lecturer and author 
of many songs and poems and of a l)ook entitled, "Forty Roiuids from the 
Cartridge Box of the Fighting Chaplain." He was founder of the Indiana 
Soldiers' Orphans' Home. He was a trustee of Cornell College, Iowa, from 
1880 to 1907. He died at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in 1907. He was the poet be- 
fore the Fraternity conventions of 1869 and 1877 and the author of the 
I-egend of "Wooglin and the Fraternity song entitled, 'AVooglin." 

*SAsrrEi. Magoffix Ltckett, Centre, '59, attended the Danville Theo- 
logical Seminary during 1860, 1861 and 1866, and entered tlie ministry of 
the Presbyterian church. From 1866 to 1869 he was pastor of a church at 
Russellville, Ky. From 1871 to 1878 he was president of Austin College, 
Siierman Texas. He tiien returned to the active ministry and was pastor of 
a church at Palestine and Milford, Texas, until 1887, when he again be- 
came president of Austin College, a position which he retained until his 
death in 1905. He received the degree of D. D. from Austin College in 
1887. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Coimcil held at 
London, England. 

Frederick Bi.iss Litqt^exs. Yale, '97, received a Pli. D. degree from 
Yale in 1905. From 1906 to 1913 he was assistant professor and since the 
last mentioned date has been professor of Spanish in the Sheffield Scien- 



198 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

tific School of Yale University. He is the author of "An Introduction to 
Old French" and "Three Lays of Marie de France, Retold in English 
Verse." He resides in New Haven, Conn. $ B K. 

*HoRACE HARMo>r LuRTON, Cumberland, '67, was admitted to the bar in 
1867 and began the practice of law at Nashville, Tenn. From 1875 to 
1878 he was chancellor of the 6th Division of Tennessee. From 1886 to 
1893 he was justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and a portion of the 
time its chief justice. From 1893 to 1911 he was a judge of the United 
States Circuit Court for the 6th Circuit, and from 1911 to 1914 a justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was for some time pro- 
fessor of Constitutional Law at and dean of the Law Department of Van- 
derbilt University. He received the degree of D. C. L. from the Uni- 
versity of the South in 1899. He died at Atlantic City, N. J., July 12, 
1914. <I>A<I>. 

John Newtox Lyle, Washington and Lee, '61, at graduation entered 
the Confederate army as 1st lieutenant in the 4th Virginia Infantry. From 
1862 to 186.5 he was assistant adjutant and inspector general in General 
Jackson's Brigade. From 1870 to 1874 he was county judge of Montgomery 
County, Va. In 1875 he moved to Texas. In 1898 he was appointed codifier 
of the laws of Texas. He resides at Waco, Texas, where he is practicing 
law. 

Homer Ciiilds Lymax, Colgate, '87, graduated at the Hamilton Theo- 
logical School in 1890. He then studied oratory at Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. He is a clergyman of the Baptist church. He was located at 
Cincinnati from 1890 to 1895; at Bucyrus, Ohio, from 1895 to 1900, and at 
Delaware, Ohio, from 1900 to 1905. He was business manager of the 
Baptist Young People's Union of America in 1906 and 1907. He was 
dean of the theological department of Benedict College at Columbia, S. C, 
from 1907 to 1911. He has been departmental superintendent (work 
among negroes) of the International Sunday School Association since 1911. 
He was speaker at the World's Sunday School Association at Zurich, 
Switzerland, in July, 1913. He has offices in Chicago and Atlanta, Ga. 

*AxjGusTus Davis Lynch, DePauw, '57, and Indiana, '57, received the 
degree of LL. B. from Indiana in 1859. From 1860 to 1862 he was presi- 
dent of Brookville College. In 1862 he entered the Union army as 1st 
lieutenant and quartermaster of the 68th Indiana Volunteers. After the 
war he became cashier of the First National Bank of Shelbyville, Ind., a 
position he held until 1874. In 1874 he was appointed a National bank ex- 
aminer, a position he held until 1889, when he was appointed as an expert by 




HORACE H. LURTON 
Cumberland '67 




•EDMUND G. McGILTON 
Wisconsin 'S3 



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the government to act as receiver of insolvent banks. He was vice presi- 
dent of the First National Bank of Indianapolis from 1878 to 1881 and its 
president imtil 1889. He was a high authority in his chosen field of work. 
In 1904 he retired from active work, but still responded to emergency calls 
until his death, which took place at Washington Oct. 6, 1908. He was a 
member of the board of directors of the Fraternity in 1879 and 1880, and 
was president of the Alumni Association at Washington for many years. 

*James Robert Lyok, Emory, '44, studied law and practiced at Jack- 
son, Ga. From 1848 to 1854 he was a member of the Georgia Legislature. 
From 1856 to 1860 lie was solicitor general for Flint Circuit. He entered the 
Confederate army in 1863, and was a colonel and aide to Governor Brown of 
Georgia until April, 1865. He died in 1870. 

IvEHOY SpnixGs Lyox, Richmond, '86, graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1891 and from the graduate Artillery School in 1898. 
He is a major in the Field Artillery in the United States army. He is de- 
tailed as major inspector general at the AV^ar Department at Washington for 
the years 1911-1915. 



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Robert Emjieit MacAlarney, Dickinson, '93, after his graduation did 
post graduate work at Harvard in English and History and l)ecame a 
newspaper man. He has done work as a reporter or editor upon the Har- 
risburg Telegraph, the Newark Daily Advertiser, and the New Yoric 
Journal and from 1910 to 1912 was city editor of the New York Evening 
Mail. From 1912 to 1914 he was associate professor of Journalism in the 
Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia. He resides in New York City. 

Frakk Pitts MacLennax, Kansas, '75, lias been a newspaper man 
ever since his graduation from college. From 1877 to 1885 he was con- 
nected with the Daily News of Emporia, Kansas, and since that time has 
been proprietor and editor of the Topeka State Journal of Topeka, Kan., 
where he resides. He was vice president of The Associated Press from 
1910 to 1912. 

DuNT.AP J. McAdajf, Washington and Jefferson, '68, graduated with 
first honors. During the war he was a soldier in the 126th Ohio Infantry ir 
the Union army. In 1872 he became professor of Applied Mathematics at 
Washington and Jefferson and has since held tlie same position. He lias 
been editor of the Carroll Chronicle, and a contributor to the Analyst and 
Mathematical Visitor. He is the author of a book on surveying. He re- 
ceived the degree of U^. D. in 1913. He resides at Washington, Pa. 

Andrew Walker McAi.ester, Missouri, '68, was a member of the 
y\lpha of Zeta Phi, wiiich became the Missouri chapter of the Fraternity. 
He received his M. D. degree from the University of Missouri and then 
studied in Europe. He has been jirofessor of surgery at the University 
of Missouri since 1873 and dean of its medical school since 1880. He was 
for four years president of the Missouri State Board of Health. He re- 
ceived the degree of EL. D. in 1897. He resides at Columbia, Mo. 

yVNDHEW W^ALKER McyVLESTER, Jr., Missouri, "97, graduated with tlie de- 
gree of B. Litt. and took his M. D. at Missouri University in 1905. He 
was principal of the Missouri School for the Blind from 1898 to 
1900. He has made a specialty of ophthalmology and resided at 
Kansas City, Mo., since 1906. He has been oculist to the Mercy and 
Kansas City General Flospital since 1907. He was professor of Ophthal- 

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202 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

raology of the Medical School of the University of Kansas from 1908 to 
1912. -I-Bn. 

*LoRENZo Dow McCabe, Oho, '43, almost immediately after his grad- 
uation entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, but he 
never was pastor of any church. In 184.5 he became professor of Mathe- 
matics at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1864 he became professor of Philosophy and 
held that position until his death, which took place at Delaware, Ohio, in 
1897. He was president of the University from 1886 to 1891. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Allegheny in 1855 and LL. D. from Syracuse in 
1875. He was the author of a number of theological works, "Foreknowl- 
edge of God," "Divine Science of Future Contingents, a Necessity," "Phil- 
osophy of Holiness," etc. 

Albert McCai-la, Monmouth, '67, graduated from the Union Theo- 
logical Seminary in New York City and entered the ministry of the Pres- 
byterian church. From 1875 to 1886 he was professor of the Physical 
Sciences at Parsons College; from 1886 to 1888 he was professor of Math- 
ematics and Astronomy at Lake Forest University. He is now president 
of the Calumet Car Co. and resides in Chicago. He received the degree 
of Ph. D. from Monmouth in 1885. In 1882 he was president of the So- 
ciety of American Microscopists. 

Charles Delbeht McClain, Iowa Wesleyan, '99, is professor of Math- 
ematics at "Iowa Wesleyan and resides at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 

Ebilix McClaix, Iowa, '71, was a judge of the Supreme Court of 
Iowa from 1902 to 1913, having previously been professor of Law, vice 
chancellor and chancellor of the State University at Iowa City. He 
has been a prolific author on professional subjects and among other 
work of this kind prepared a series of Annotated Statutes of Iowa in 
1880, and a Digest of Iowa Reports in 1886, subsequently carried down 
to 1890, outlines of Criminal Law and Procedure in 1884, and a work 
on the Law of Carriers in 1896, a Treatise on General Criminal Law 
in 1897, a work on the Constitutional Law of the United States issued m 
the American Citizen Series of 1905, and has been a prolific contributor to 
the professional journals and encyclopedias relating to law and procedure. 
He has had the honor of having a chapter of the Fraternity of Phi Delta 
Phi named for him. He is now professor of law at Stanford University, 
Calif. *BK, ^-A*. 

Robert Wilso^t McClaughry, Monmouth, ^QQ, has devoted his entire 
mature life to the business of managing penitentiaries and reformatory 



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institutions. He was warden of the Illinois state penitentiary from 1874 to 
1888, general superintendent of tlie Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory 
for the next three years, chief of police of Chicago from 1891 to 1893, 
general superintendent of the Illinois State Reformatory from 1893 to 
1897, and warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary until 1900. He was 
then placed in charge of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, 
Kan., where he remained until he resigned in 1913. Prior to his college 
career, he served through the war in the Illinois Volunteer Infantry and 
attained the rank of major therein. He resides at Monmouth, 111. 

John James McClellax, Cumberland, '83, resides at West Point, 
Miss. He has been special circuit judge three times. He has been twice 
moderator of the Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and 
of the Snyod of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He is widely known 
as the author of a pamphlet on the doctrinal differences between the Cum- 
berland Presbyterian and the Presbyterian churches. He has been city 
and county attorney for some years. 

*JonN Cat.vix McCliktock, Washington & Jefferson, '62, graduated 
at the Western Tlieological Seminary in 1865 and became a Presbyterian 
clergyman. He was pastor of the First Church, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, from 
1865 to 1871, of the First Church, Burlington, Iowa, from 1871 to 1896^ 
and of the First Church, Sioux City, Iowa, from 1896 to 1903. He was 
stated clerk of the Synod of Iowa from 1890 to 1903. He was a director 
of Parsons College and of the Omaha Theological Seminary. He was the 
author of a history of the Presbyterian church at Burlington, Iowa, and 
of "Love Never Faileth." He received the degree of D. D. from Mon- 
mouth College in 1886. He died at Sioux City in 1903. 

Edwix Browx McClteRj Westminster, '78, graduated from the Union 
Theological Seminary in Virginia in 1882 and entered the ministry of the 
Presbyterian church (South). In 1901 he was moderator of the Synod of 
Virginia. In 1902 he received the degree of D. D. from Westminster Col- 
lege and from Hampden-Sidney College. Since 1909 he has been the editor 
of the Presbi/terian of the South. He resides at Richmond, Va. 

David Waddle McCi.uxg, Miami, '54, resides at Cincinnati. In 1859-60 
he was probate judge of Butler County, Ohio. He entered the LTnion army 
in 1861 and served through the was as captain, major and lieutenant-col- 
onel. He was surveyor of the port of Cincinnati from 1881 to 1885 and 
collector of internal revenue from 1889 to 1893. He was a trustee of Miami 
University from 1866 to 1884 and since 1887. He has always taken a great 



204 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

interest in the Fraternity. He was vice president of the convention of 1854 
and president of the Convention of 1856. He was a member of the board 
of directors from 1891-1892 and of the board of trustees from 1892 to 1897. 

Harry B. McClure, Iowa State, '02, is assistant Agriculturist in the 
Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
He perfected the first practical method of curing hay artificially, and has 
written two bulletins entitled "Conditions Affecting the Value of Market 
Hay," and "Baling and Marketing Hay." 

*WiLLiAM Clark McCi-ure, Miami, '65, served as a private in the 86th 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union army from 1863 to 1865. He en- 
gaged in the lumber business at Toledo until 1869 when he organized the 
business of the Mitchell & McClure Company, manufacturers of and deal- 
ers in white pine lumber at Saginaw, Mich. He was president of the Handy 
Wagon Works at Saginaw, Mich., president of the Bank of Gladwin. 
Mich., and the principal promoter in the organization and construction of 
the Cincinnati, Saginaw and Mackinaw R. R. He died while on a trip to 
Europe in 1904. 

JoHisr HiLDRETH McCoLLOM^ Dartmouth, '65, did not graduate. He 
received his degree of M. D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1869. 
He has practiced medicine at Boston since 1871. He was liospital steward 
of the 30th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry from 1862 to 1865, and 
assistant superintendent of the U. S. Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass., 
from 1870 to 1871. He was city physician of Boston from 1881 to 1895. 
He has been resident physician of the South Department infectious service, 
Boston City Hospital since 1895 and physician for infectious diseases since 
1900. He has been superintendent and medical director of the Boston 
City Hospital since 1909. He has been professor of contagious diseases 
at the Harvard Medical School since 1908. He is the author of numerous 
papers in the leading medical journals. Dartmouth College gave him the 
honorary degree of M. S. in 1910. 

*Edward McConnei.i,, Illinois, '59, was a lawyer practicing at Jack- 
sonville, 111. In 1861 he entered the Union army in the 10th Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry and was gradually promoted^ until he became major 
in 1864. He was a member of the Illinois Legislature from 1895 to 1897 
and of the Illinois Senate from 1897 to 1899 and of the lower house of 
the Legislature again from 1901 to 1905. He died in 1913. 

James Marshall McGormick, Virginia, '69, was mayor of Berry- 
ville, Va., from 1875 to 1877, district attorney for Clarke County, Va., from 



JAMES WIIjSOX McDILL 205 

1879 to 1883 and a meml)er of the Legislature of Virginia from 1880 to 
1886. He is counsel for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company and 
resides at Berryville. 

John Watts McCormick, Ohio, '55, did not graduate, but on leaving 
college became a farmer at Gallipolis, Ohio. He was ordained a minister 
of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1864. He was a member of the Ohio 
Constitutional Convention of 1873-74, and was a member of Congress 
from 1883 to 1885. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1913 from Rio 
Grande College. He resides at Gallipolis, Ohio. 

*Wii,MAivr Jaimes McCui.i.oii, Washington & Jefferson, '43, became a 
civil engineer at New Orleans. From 1850 to 1861 he was surveyor-gen- 
eral of Louisiana. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army and became a 
colonel and an aide to Gen. R. Taylor and served throughout the war. He 
also acted as a land commissioner for the state. After the war he became 
superintendent of the city water works of New Orleans and Chief En- 
gineer of the New Orleans & Ohio railroad, which positions he iield 
until his death, which occurred in 1877. 

*JoHj«r Jacksox McDavid, Cumberland, '55, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Huntsville, Ala. From 1862 to 1864 he served in the 
Confederate army and became lieutenant-colonel of the 35th Alabama In- 
fantry. From 1901 to 1905 he was editor of the Southern Farmer. He died 
at Birmingham, Ala., in 1907. 

*DAvm L. MacDii.i., Miami, '48, graduated from Centre Colege in 1849. 
He studied at the yVllegheny Theological Seminary and entered the min- 
istry of the Presbyterian church in 1853. He was pastor of a church at 
Cherry Fork, Ohio, from 1853 to 1876. From 1876 to 1884 he was professor 
of English at Monmouth College. From 1885 to 1902 he was professor of 
Apologetics at the Xenia Theological Seminary. He was moderator of the 
General Assembly of 1892. He was a trustee of Miami University from 
1893 to 1903. He was the author of a number of books, "The Life of 
Judge Morrison," "Secret Societies," "The Bible, a Miracle," "The Higher 
Critics," "The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch," "Conmion Sense and 
Logic Applied to Theology." He received the degree of D. D. from Mon- 
mouth in 1874, LL. D. from Centre in 1894, and L. H. D. from Miami in 
1901. 

*James Wilson McDill, Miami, '53, was born at Monroe, Ohio, March 
4, 1834. After his graduation he studied law at Columbus, Ohio, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1856 and moved to Iowa in that year. He was elected 



206 BE TA 8- OF A GHIE YEMEN T 

superintendent of schools of Union County, Iowa, in 1859, and county judge 
of Union County, Iowa, in 1860. In 1861 he was appointed clerk of the 
United States Senate committee on the District of Columbia. In 1862 he 
became clerk in the office of the third auditor of the treasury and remained 
until 1865, when he resigned and returned to Iowa. He was elected cir- 
cuit judge of the Second District of the Third Judicial Circuit of Iowa in 
1868, and was appointed in 1870 and then elected district judge of the 
Third Judicial Circuit of Iowa. In 1873 he was elected to the Forty-fourth 
Congress and was re-elected, serving until 1877. He became a member of 
the Board of Railway Commissioners of the state of Iowa in 1878 and 
served until 1881, when he was appointed to the United States Senate as 
a Republican to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. 
Samuel J. Kirkwood. He was subsequently elected to fill the vacancy by 
the legislature of Iowa, serving until March 3, 1883. He was appointed a 
member of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1892 and held such 
position until his death, which occurred Feb. 28, 1894. 

*JosKPH EwiNG McDoKALD, Indiana, '64, spent two years at college, 
but did not graduate. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 
1843, and commenced to practice. He was prosecuting attorney of Tippe- 
canoe County from 1843 to 1847. He was elected to the 31st Congress from 
the 8th District of Indiana and served from 1849 to 1851. He was elected 
attorney general of Indiana in 1856 and re-elected in 1858. He was an 
unsuccessful candidate for governor of Indiana in 1864. He was elected 
to the United States Senate and took his seat March 5, 1875, and served 
until 1881. He was given the degree of A. B. in 1864, twenty or more years 
after he attended college and that of LL. D. in 1882. He was for a time 
president of the Alumni chapter at Indianapolis. He died June 21, 1891, 
at Indianapolis, Ind. 

William Tate McDonald^ Mississippi, '82, became a lawyer and prac- 
tices at Ashland, Miss. He was a member of the lower house of the Mis- 
sissippi Legislature from 1886 to 1888 and of the upper house from 1896 to 
1904, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1890. 

*Thomas Johnstone McElrath, Hanover, '58, studied law and began 
its practice at CarroUton, Ky. From 1861 to 1865 he was a private in the 
4th Kentucky Cavalry in the Confederate army. He was county attorney 
of Carroll County, Ky., 1866 to 1870, a member of the Kentucky Legisla- 
ture 1872 to 1876, and of the Kentucky Senate 1877 to 1882. He was a 
presidential elector in 1888. He died in 1911 at CarroUton, Ky. 



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James Ai.exaxder Porter McGaw, Miami, '5(), graduated at the Ox- 
ford Theological Seminary in 1858 and entered the ministry of the Presby- 
terian church. From 1867 to 1868 he was professor of English Literature 
at Monmouth College. He was trustee of Monmouth College from 1860 to 
1867 and of Wooster University from 1873 to 1880 and 1882 to 1893. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Monmouth in 1871. He resides at Port- 
land, Oregon. 

*NoRTON McGiFFiN, Washington & Jefferson, '45, served during the 
Mexican war in the United States army. He was admitted to the bar in 
1849. From 1850 to 1853 he was county treasurer of Washington County, 
Pa. From 1858 to 1861 he was sheriff of the same county. He entered the 
Union army in 1861 and served until 1864, becoming lieutenant-colonel of 
the 85th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. From 1880 to 1882 he was a 
member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. He died in 1905 at Washington, 
Pa. 

Edmund George McGiltox, Wisconsin, '83, graduated from the law 
school in 1885 and began the practice of law at Omaha, Neb. From 1903 
to 1907 he was lieutenant governor of Nebraska for two terms. He is a 
member of the Nebraska Historical Society and of the local social and 
business organizations of Omaha, where he resides. 

*WiLT,iAM McGregob, Washington & Jefferson, '56, became a teacher at 
New Orleans. When the war broke out he entered the Confederate army 
as an artilleryman and was rapidly promoted until in 1864 he was lieuten- 
ant-colonel of the Washington artillery. He was killed in battle July, 1864, 
near Atlanta, Ga. 

Henry Read McIi.waine, Hampden-Sidncy, '85, attended the Johns 
Hopkins University, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1894. From 1894 
to 1907 he was professor of English and History at Hampden-Sidney Col- 
lege, and since 1907 has been librarian of the Virginia State Library at 
Richmond. He is the author of "The Struggle oi Protestant Dissenters for 
Religious Toleration in Virginia." He is the editor of the Virginia State 
Library's edition of "The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia." 
He resides at Richmond, Va. 

*RiciiARD McIt.waixe, Hampden-Sidney, '-53, attended the University 
of Virginia from 18.53 to 1855, and was the founder of the chapter of the 
Fraternity there. He graduated from the Presbyterian Union Theological 
Seminary at Hampden-Sidney in 1857 and from the Free Church College 
at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1858, and entered the ministry of the Presby- 



208 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

terian church. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as lieutenant. In 
1862 he became chaplain of the 44th Virginia Volunteers, serving through- 
out the war. From 1865 to 1870 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church 
at Farmville, Va., and from 1870 to 1872 of a church at Lynchburg, Va. 
From 1872 to 1883 he was secretary and treasurer of the Board of Mis- 
sions of the Southern Presbyterian church, and from 1883 to 1904 was 
president of Hampden-Sidney college. He was a member of the Consti- 
tutional Convention of Virginia in 1901 and 1902. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Stewart College in 1873 and LL. D. from Davidson 
College in 1900. He died at Richmond, Va., in 1913. 

Horace Grant McKean, Colgate, '89, was for some years head master 
of The Colby Academy, New London, N. H. Since 1905 he has been pro- 
fessor of Rhetoric and Public Speaking at Union College, Schenectady, 
N. Y. 

*JoHN Lapsley McKee, Centre, '49, attended the Theological Semin- 
ary of the Presbyterian church at Princeton from 1851 to 1852, and the 
theological seminary of the same church at Danville, Ky., from 1854 to 
1855, and entered the ministry of the Southern Presbyterian Church. From 
1855 to 1859 he was principal of the Columbia, Ky., high school. From 1859 
to 1871 he was pastor of the Chestnut Street Church in Louisville, Ky., and 
in 1872 became professor of Moral Science and vice president of Centre 
College, which position he held until 1902, when he died at Danville, Ky. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Hanover in 1864. He was orator be- 
fore the Fraternity convention of 1856. 

*RoBERT McKee, Transylvania, '44, studied law and practiced at 
Hopkinsville, Ky. When the war broke out he entered the Confederate 
army and became a colonel attached to the command of Gen. Forrest. He 
was captured and died while a prisoner of war at Chicago in 1863. 

*Samuel McKeEj Centre, '53, studied law at Transylvania Law School 
and graduated in 1856, and began the practice of law at Danville, Ky. At 
the outbreak of the war he entered the Union army as captain of the 3rd 
Kentucky Infantry and was promoted until he became its colonel. He was 
killed at the battle of Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862. 

Joseph Parker McKeehan, Dickinson, '97, graduated in the law de- 
partment in 1902. He was vice principal of the Dickinson Preparatory 
School in 1899-1900 and has been professor of Law at the Dickinson Law 
School since 1902. He was a member of the Jury of Awards at the Paris 
Exposition in 1900 and a member of the Jury for Social , Economy at the 



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St. Louis Exposition in 1904. He is a member of the American Academy 
of Political and Social Science and of the American Political Science Asso- 
ciation. He is practicing law at Carlisle, Pa. 

Franklix Garkett McKeever, Brown, '81, graduated from tiie Roches- 
ter Theological Seminary in 1884. He is a Baptist clergyman. He has 
been located at the following places: At Medina, N. Y., from 1884 to 1888; 
at Providence, R. I., from 1888 to 1893; at New London, Conn., from 1893 
to 1908. He was doing literary work from 1908 to 1912, and since 1912 
he has been pastor at Newport, R. L He was honored with the degree 
of D. D. l)y Brown University in 1906. 

Thomas McKeax Thompsox McKexxax, Washington and Jefferson, 
'79, graduated with the degree of M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1882. He has practiced medicine in Pittsburgh ever since, with the 
exception of one year when he was in Minneapolis. He has been professor 
of the diseases of tlie nervous system at the University of Pittsburgh 
since 1900 and is neurologist to the Allegheny General and St. Francis 
Hospitals. 

John Heyward McKexzie, Boston, '84, graduated at Mt. Union Col- 
lege in 1883. He was president of Hillsboro College from 1888 to 1890 and 
of Belmont College and the Ohio Military Institute from 1890 to 1894. He 
then entered the ministry of the Episcopal church and has been reqtor of 
St. Mark's church at Howe, Ind., since 189.5. Since 1895 he has been rec- 
tor of the Howe School. He received the degree of I>. H. D. from Ken- 
yon in 1905 and D. D. from Nashotah House in 1910. He was a deputy 
to the general conventions of the Episcopal church in 1898, 1901, 1904 
and 1907. He is a member of a number of learned societies. He resides at 
Howe, Ind. ATA. 

Kexxeth McKexzie. Harvard, '91, received the degree of A. M. in 
1898 and Ph. D. in 1895. He also did much post graduate work in Europe. 
From 1895 to 1898 he was instructor in Modern I>anguages at Union, 
from 1898 to 1900 he was professor of Romance Languages at "West Vir- 
ginia; from 1900-05 he was instructor in Romance Languages at Yale, 
and since 1905 has been professor of Italian at Yale. He is the author 
of "Concordanza delle Rime di Francesco Petrarca," "Symmetrical Struc- 
ture of Dante's Vita Nuova," "Italian Bestiaries," "Italian Fables in 
Verse." Also editions of many foreign authors. He has been a contributor 
to many periodicals. He resides in New Haven. 4> B K. 

*Hexrv Zwixgi.i McLaix, Wabash, '67, graduated with high honors. 
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210 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Wabash College, a position which he retained until 1907, when he died at 
Crawfordsville, Ind. 

JoHK ScuDDER McLain^ Wabash, '77, was city and managing editor of 
the Kansas City Journal from 1878 to 1881. From 1881 to 1885 he was 
general advertising agent for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. He 
was editor of the Minneapolis Evening Journal from 1885 to 1908 and of 
the St. Paul Dispatch and St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1909 to 1912. He 
belongs to many civic organizations. He is the author of "Alaska and the 
Klondike." He resides at St. Paul. * B K. 

*MuRDOCK McRae McLaughlii^, Davidson, '60, entered the Confeder- 
ate army in 1861 as a private in the 38th North Carolina Volunteer In- 
fantry and became a major in that regiment before the close of the war. 
From 1870 to 1879 he was principal of the Academy at Cheraw, S. C, and 
from 1879 to 1913 superintendent of schools at the same place. He was 
one of the trustees of Davidson College. He died Dec. 15, 1913. 

William Duncax McLaughlik, Cumberland, '68, since 1872, has 
been professor of Latin and Greek at Cuhmberland University, and re- 
sides at Lebanon, Tenn. 

William Pinkxey McLean, North Carolina, '58, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar. He was a member of the Texas Legislature in 1861. 
He entered the Confederate army in 1863 as 1st heutenant of the 19th Texas 
Infantry and was successively promoted to the ranks of captain and major, 
and later became adjutant general of the 3rd Texas Brigade. He was a 
member of the Texas Legislature from 1870 to 1871, and a mem- 
ber of Congress from 1873 to 1875. He was a member of the Texas 
Constitutional Convention in 1875, and presidential elector in 1888. Since 
1884 he has been a district judge of the 5th Judicial District of Texas. He 
resides at Mt. Pleasant, Texas. 

Charles Edward McLenegax, Beloit, '82, left college and graduated at 
Racine College. He was principal of a high school in Milwaukee for some 
years. Since 1910 he has been librarian of the Milwaukee Public Library. 

*IsAAC Smith McMicken, W^ashingtnn & Jefferson, '42, studied law 
and was admitted to the bar at Pottsville, Pa. At the outbreak of the 
war with Mexico he enlisted in the first regiment of Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers as a private in 1846 and served until 1849, at which time he was a 
major. While the United States troops occupied the City of Mexico in 
1847 and 1848 he was post master of the city. He returned to the United 



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States in 1849 and practiced law, but in 1857 he was appointed consul to 
Acapulco and died tiiere the next year. 

JoHX Henhy McMillax, Indiana, '74, from 1876 to 1878 was pro- 
fessor of Languages at Smith's Grove College. He was then for a num- 
ber of years principal of the high school at Xenia, Ohio. Since 1887 he has 
been professor of Latin at Monmouth College. He received the degree of 
Litt. D. from Pennsylvania College in 1897. He resides at Monmouth, 111. 

Charles Alexander McMurry, Michigan, '81, graduated at the Illi- 
nois Normal University in 1876. In 1887 he received his Ph. D. degree 
from the University of Halle. He is a specialist in methods of education, 
and from 1887 to 1901 taught in various normal schools in Illinois and 
elsewhere. He is the author of a number of "Special Method" books on 
"Reading," "Literature," "History," "Geography," "Natural Science," 
"Manual Arts," "Arithmetic," "Language," "Teacher's Manual of Geog- 
raphy," "Pioneer History Series," etc. He resides at DeKalb, 111. 

Antoine De Reilue McNair, Harvard, '82, graduated from the Naval 
Academy in 1860 and gradually rose in rank until 1880 when he retired 
with the rank of lieutenant commander on account of disability from 
wounds received in active service. He resides at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 

*Marcus LaFayette McPhersox, DePauw, '48, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar and settled at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was a mem- 
ber of the Iowa Senate from 1856 to 1860 and delegate from Iowa to the 
Republican convention of 1860. He was Republican presidential elector 
in 1860. During the war he was captain and commissary in the Union 
Army. In 1870 and 1871 he was district attorney at Council Bluffs, where 
he died Dec. 29, 1871. 

*Hamiltox Samuel McRea, Indiana, '57, was valedictorian of his 
class. From 1857 to 1858 he was principal of Temple Grove Academy, 
Indiana. While acting as such he studied law and was admitted to the bar 
and from 1858 to 1861 served as district attorney at Marion, Ind. In 1861 
he was elected to the Indiana Legislature, but at the outbreak of the war 
resigned and enlisted as a private in the Union army in the 66th Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, serving imtil 1864 and attaining the rank of captain. 
He was severely wounded at the battle of Resaca. In 1864 he was judge 
advocate on the staff of General Sweeney. From 1867 to 1883 he was 
superintendent of schools at Muncie, Ind., and from 1883 to 1887 at Mar- 
ion, Ind. He died in 1887 at Marion, Ind. 



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*Charles McVea, Centenary, '50, graduated in 1852 from the law de- 
partment of the University of Louisiana. He was admitted to the bar and 
practiced at Clinton, La. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as a 
first lieutenant in the 1st Louisiana Cavalry and served through the war. 
From 1878 to 1885 he was judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeals. He 
died at Baton Rouge in 1885. 

Alfred Hestry McVey, Ohio Wesleyan, '68, received his M. A. degree 
in 1871. From 1862 to 1863 he was a private in the 79th Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry in the Union army. He graduated at the Cincinnati Law School 
and was admitted to the bar, and practiced for some years at Toledo, Ohio. 
He is the author of "McVey's Ohio Digest" and "Law Relating to Incorpor- 
ated Companies for Economic Purposes." He was attorney at Toledo for 
the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington R. R. and for a time general counsel 
for the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis R. R. Co. In 1883 he moved ta 
Des Moines, Iowa. He is a specialist in insurance law. From 1902 to 1907 
he served as district judge. He resides at Lindenwood, Des Moines, Iowa, 
and is engaged in the active practice of law. 

*WooDFORD Hayward Mabry, Virginia Military Institute, '75, removed 
to Texas and became a merchant at Austin, Texas. From 1881 to 1889 he 
was captain in the United States army. From 1889 to 1899 he was adju- 
tant general of Texas. During the Spanish War he was colonel of the 2nd 
Texas United States Volunteers. He died in 1898 at Austin, Texas. 

Jesse Juan Macdonald, Columbia, '07, took a special course of mining 
at Columbia in 1906 and 1907. He began his professional career as an 
assayer in Colorado in 1893. He is a mining engineer. He was one of the 
first in America to make use of the cyanide process in extracting gold 
from ores, and spent many years in Mexico and South America, in remote 
places, working out metallurgical problems. He is now metallurgical en- 
gineer of the Utah Copper Company and president of the Sandon & San 
Juan Oil Co. His home is at Garfield, Utah. 

Wiixiam Townley Macdonald, Columbia, '08, graduated with a de- 
gree of E. M. at the School of Mines. He is a mining engineer. He was 
chemist for the Gold & Silver Extraction Company of Denver from 1897 
to 1899. He was assayer at Ballarat, Cal., from 1899 to 1901. He had 
charge of mines at Chihuahua, Mexico, from 1901 to 1905. He was chief 
chemist and assistant superintendent of the Magna plant of the Utah 
Copper Company at Garfield, LTtah, from 1908 to 1911, and since 1911 has 
been superintendent of the mills of the Chino Copper Company at Hurley, 



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New Mexico. He is tin- jnitlior of a mimher of articles and reports on 
mining. 

JoHX Nor.AND Mackenzie, Virginia, '74, graduated from the medical 
department of the University of Virginia in 1876 and the medical depart- 
ment of the University of New York in 1877. He then went to London and 
became chief of the clinic for diseases of the throat and chest in the London 
Hospital. He studied further at the University of Munich and completed 
his education at the University of Vienna. He was professor of Laryngol- 
ogy at the University of Maryland from 1888 to 1889 and has been profes- 
sor of Rhinology and Laryngology at Johns Hopkins and Laryngologist at 
the Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1889. He has been one of the editors of 
the Maryland Medical Journal and since 1888 has been American editor of 
the International Journal of Laryngology and Rhinology. He is a member 
of manj^ learned societies and has contributed to many of the professional 
journals. He resides at Baltimore, Md. 

Fraxk Pitts MacLkxxan, Kansas, '75, graduated with the degree of 
B. S. He is a newspaper man. He was on the staff of the Emporia Daily 
Neit'S from 1877-80 and he was with that journal as part owner from 1880 
to 1885. He has been proprietor and editor of the Topeka State Journal 
since 1885. He was vice president of the Associated Press in 1910 and 
1911. He resides at Topeka, Kansas. 

RuFus Magee, Indiana, '67, became a journalist. From 1869 to 1876 he 
was editor and proprietor of the Pharos at Logansport, Ind. From 1886 
to 1890 he was United States Minister to Norway and Sweden. He has 
been a member of the Indiana State Senate for four terms. He resides at 
Logansport, Ind. 

William Tiiosias MAGHunEU, Stevens, '81, was a graduate student in 
Mathematics and Chemistry at Johns Hopkins in 1886-87. From 1881 to 
1886 he was draftsman and designer for the Campbell Printing Press 
Manufacturing Co., at Taunton, Mass. In 1887 he was chief chemist for 
the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. From 1887 to 1888 he was instructor and 
from 1888 to 1896 adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vander- 
bilt. In 1896 he was chief of machinery at the Tennessee Centennial Ex- 
position. Since 1896 he has been professor of Mechanical Engineering at 
Ohio State University. He was secretary of Section D of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science in 1899-00 and 1902-07. Mem- 
ber of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, councillor 
in 1900-02, and 1907-11; vice president 1905-06; secretary 1906-07, and 



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president 1912-13. He also belongs to other professional organizations. He 
resides at Coluntibus, Ohio. 

Frank W. Mahin^ Iowa Wesleyan, '74, graduated from the Columbia 
Law School in 1878 and practiced law for three years. He was editor and 
manager of the Clinton, Iowa, Herald from 1881 to 1897 and was post 
master at Clinton from 1890 to 1894. In 1898 he entered the United States 
consular service, and was consul at Reichenberg, Austria, from 1898 to 
1902, at Nottingham, England, from 1902 to 1910, and since 1910 at Am- 
sterdam. He was a regent of the University of Iowa from 1894 to 1897 and 
a colonel in the Iowa National Guard from 1891 to 1898. 

*RoBERT QuARTEHMAN Mallard, Georgia, '33, taught school for two 
years and then entered the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, 
S. C, graduating in 1858. During the war he served as a chaplain in the 
Confederate army. In 1894 he became the editor of the Southwestern Pres- 
byterian at New Orleans, La., and continued as such until his death, which 
occurred in 1902. He received the degree of D. D. from the Southwestern 
Presbyterian University. 

William Gwathmey Manley, Virginia, '84, attended Georgetown Col- 
lege, Ky., from 1877 to 1880. He was professor of Latin and Greek at 
Mercer University from 1886 to 1889. He then attended Harvard, re- 
ceiving an A. M. degree in 1890. Since 1890 he has been professor of 
Greek at the University of Missouri. He is president of the Classical 
Association of the Middle West and South. He resides at Columbia, Mo. 

George Culley Maxly, Denver, '85, Michigan, '87, graduated from 
the law department of the University of Michigan in 1887 and has prac- 
ticed in Denver. Since 1892 he has been a professor in the law depart- 
ment of the University of Denver and its dean since 1910. He resides at 
Denver. He was alumni secretary from 1889 to 1892 and chief of a Dis- 
trict from 1887 to 1888. 

*Thomas Hughes Maxxex, Centre, '64, left college to enter the Un- 
ion army in 1862. From 1862 to 1863 he was captain in the 16th Kentucky 
Infantry and from 1863 to 1865 major in the 40th Kentucky Mounted In- 
fantry. After the war he became a merchant at Maysville, Ky., and was 
a member of the Kentucky Legislature from 1877 to 1879. He died at 
Maysville in 1882. 

Hexry Parker Manning, Brown, '83, received his Ph. D. from Johns 
Hopkins in 1891. From 1891 to 1895 he was an instructor, from 1895 to 



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1906 an assistant professor and since 1906 associate professor of Pure 
Mathematics at Brown. He is the author of a "Non-Euclidian Geometry" 
and "Irrational Numbers." He resides at Providence, R. I. * B K, 2 S. 

*IsAiAH Maxsur, Miami, '46, did not graduate. He entered upon 
the banking business at Indianapolis. During the Civil war he was com- 
missary general of the State of Indiana. He was president of the Citi- 
zens' National Bank of Indianapolis from 1863 to 1867. He died Dec. 30, 

1880. 

*David Caliioux Marquis, Washington & Jefferson, '57, after gradua- 
tion studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary and the North- 
western Theological Seminary, graduating at the latter in 1863. He then 
entered the Presbj'terian ministry and was the pastor of churches at De- 
catur, 111., 1863-66; North Church, Chicago, 1866-70; Westminster Church. 
Baltimore, 1870-78, and Lafayette Park Church, St. Louis, 1878-83. He then 
became a professor at the McCormick Theological Seminary. He was mod- 
erator of the General Assembly of 1886, and a member of the Pan-Pres- 
byterian Council at Edinburgh in 1877 and Glasgow in 1896. He received 
the degree of D. D. from his Alma Mater in 1875 and LL. D. from West- 
minster College, Mo., in 1891, Westminster College, Pa., in 1892, and his 
Alma Mater in 1902. He died at Chicago October 8, 1912. 

Robert Athelstax Marr, Virginia Military Institute, '77, was en- 
gaged on the LTnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1892. 
From 1892 to 1905 he. was professor of Engineering at the Virginia Mili- 
tary Institute and since 1905 has been dean of the engineering department 
of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He resides at Blacksburg, Va. 

*Hexry Ci.ay Marshall, Ohio Wesleyan, '55, received his M. A. de- 
gree in 1858. Shortly after that he moved to Nevada and was auditor of 
Nevada territory from 1862 to 1864. In 1868 he returned to Ohio and 
settled at Dayton. From 1878 to 1883 he was a member of the Board of 
Police Commissioners of Dayton; from 1883 to 1889 he was County Com- 
missioner of Montgomery county, Ohio, and from 1889 to 1891 a member 
of the Ohio Senate. He died at Dayton in 1898. 

'Humphrey Marshall, Transylvania, '44, graduated from West 
Point in 1828 as a second lieutenant; resigned from the army April 30, 
1833. He studied law at Transylvania and received the degree of LL. B. 
in 1844. He commenced practice at Louisville and became active in the 
state militia. He was a colonel of volunteer cavalry in the Mexican war, 
1846 to 1847. He was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the 



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thirty-first and thirty-second Congresses as a Whig, serving until his 
resignation August 4, 1852. He was minister to China in 1852 to 1854. He 
was elected to thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth Congresses as a National 
American. When the Civil War broke out he became a brigadier-general 
in the Confederate service and served during 1861 and 1862. In 1862 he 
was elected to the Confederate Congress and served until the close of 
the war. He died at Louisville, Ky., March 28, 1872. 

John Marshall^ Centre, '77, graduated from the Louisville Law 
School in 1879. From 1900 to 1902 he was lieutenant governor of Kentucky. 
He is a lawyer and resides at Louisville, Ky. 

Andrew Bennett Martin, Cumberland, '58, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar. From 1861 to 1865 he was in the Confederate army, at- 
taining the rank of major. Since 1866 he has been one of the trustees of 
Cumberland University and since 1882 president of the board. In 1871 
and 1872 he was a member of the Tennessee Legislature. Since 1878 he 
has been professor of Law at the Cumberland Law School. In 1880 he 
was a presidential elector. He resides at Lebanon, Tenn. 

*Charles Martin, Washington & Jefferson, '42, after graduation be- 
came the principal of the Martinsburg, Ohio, Academy until 1847, when 
he accepted the professorship of Latin at Hampden-Sidney College. In 
1859 he became professor of Greek and retained that position until 1871. 
He was acting president of the college from' 1848 to 1849, and from 1856 to 
1857. When the war broke out he entered the Confederate service in the 
cavalry and served during the war, becoming a lieutenant, captain anl 
adjutant. In 1872 he became professor of English Literature at the Vir- 
ginia State College and Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Va. In 1880 
he resigned and accepted the position of clerk of the United States Circuit 
Court for the Western District of Virginia, a position he occupied until 
his death at Danville, Va., in 1888. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
his Alma Mater in 1876 and also from Hampden-Sidney College the same 
year. He was the founder of the chapter at Hampden-Sidney College. 

KiNGSLEY Leverich Martin, Stcveus, '92, is an eminent engineer of 
New York City, a specialist in bridge and foundation work. He was edu- 
cated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and graduated at Stevens in 
1892. After serving for a short time on the engineer corps of the East 
river Bridge Co., he was appointed assistant engineer of the Brooklyn 
Bridge and afterwards on the Willif^msburg bridge. Shortly after that 
bridge was opened he was appointed engineer in charge of all of the bridges 



WILLIAM JOSEPH MARTIN 217 

in Brooklyn and on Staten Island. He was in charge of the work of reor- 
ganizing the traffic on the Brooklyn bridge and the rect)nstriiction of its 
New York terminal. In 1908 he was appointed chief engineer of the de- 
partment of bridges, New York City, and in January, 1910, commissioner 
of bridges. In 1911 he resigned to become vice president and executive 
officer of the Foundation Company of New York, and in 1913 was elected 
vice president of the American Writing Paper Co. of Holyoke, Mass. He 
enlisted in the Brooklyn Naval Militia in 1897 and served with it through 
the war and advanced through various grades, ranking as commanding 
officer in 1913. 

Wii.i.iAJi Alexanuer Pahsoxs Martix, Indiana, '46, graduated at the 
New Albany Theological Seminary in 1849 and entered the ministry of 
tlie Presbyterian church. From 1858 to 18.59 he was interpreter to the 
United States legation at Pekin, China. From 1850 to 1860 he was a 
Presbyterian missionary at Ning Po, China, and from 1863 to 1867 at 
Pekin. From 1867 to 1869 he was professor of International Law at the 
Imperial University of China, and from 1869 to 1900 was president of the 
Imperial Tung Wen College. In 1885 he was created a mandarin of the 
third rank l)y the Emperor of China. On various occasions he has per- 
formed important diplomatic services between the United States and the 
Chinese government. From 1880 to 1882 he served the Chinese government 
in the capacity of a commissioner to the United States and Europe to 
investigate the matter of education in occidental countries with a view fo 
its application to Chinese conditions. He is the author of "The Chinese, 
their Education, Philosophy and Letters," which was written both in Chi- 
nese and English," "A History of the Classic Age of China" in English, 
"Natural Theology and Evidences of Christianity" in Chinese, "A Treatise 
on Physics" in seven volumes in Chinese and for three years was editor of a 
scientific monthly in the Chinese language. He has translated into Chinese 
many works on science, law and philosophy, including Woolsey's Internat- 
ional Law, and for many years has been regarded as the leading English 
speaking authority on China and the Chinese. He is a member of practic- 
ally all the learned societies dealing with Oriental topics. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Lafayette in 1861 and I,L. D. from New York Uni- 
versity in 1870. He resides at Wu Chang, China. 

WiLr.iAM Joseph Martix, Davidson, '88, after graduation tauglit for 
a year at the Presbyterian College, Clinton, S. C. He then studied at the 
University of Virginia, receiving his M. D. degree in 1890. He taught 
chemistry and geology at Davidson in 1890 and 1891 and was a graduate 



218 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

student in chemistry at the University of Virginia in 1891 and 1892. He 
was instructor in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins from 1892 to 1896 and in 
the meantime received his Ph. D. degree in 1894. From 1896 to 1912 he 
was professor of Chemistry at Davidson and also Bursar and College 
Proctor. He has received the degree of LL. D. from Central University 
and Lake Forest College. Since 1912 he has been president of Davidson. 

*RoDNEY Masox, Miami, '44, did not graduate at Miami, but removed 
to Jeflferson College, Pa., wliere he founded the Gamma Chapter. He stud- 
ied law and practiced at Springfield, Ohio, from 1847 to 1861. When the 
Civil war brolte out he entered the Union army as lieutenant-colonel of 
the 2nd Ohio Volunteers. During 1862-3 he was assistant adjutant-general 
of Ohio and in 1864 became colonel of the 71st Ohio Volunteers, serving 
until the close of the war. After the war, he removed to Washington and 
practiced law, being engaged in many important cases before the Supreme 
Court of the United States. About 1890 he moved to Detroit where he 
died in 1893. 

Horace Nelson Mateer, Monmouth, '77, graduated from Princeton in 
1877 and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1883. He received the degree of Ph. D. fronti Wooster in 1887. Since 
1887 he has been professor of Biology and Geology at the University of 
Wooster. He resides at Wooster, Ohio. 

*Henry Mason Mathews^ Virginia, '54, studied law after his grad- 
uation and received his Master's degree in 1856. He began the practice 
of law at Wheeling, W. Va. From 1860 to 1861 he was professor of Lan- 
guages at Allegheny College. When the war broke out he became a major 
of artillery in the Confederate army and served throughout the entire 
war. After the war he settled at Lewisburg, W. Va. From 1872 to 1876 he 
was attorney general of West Virginia, and from 1876 to 1880 governor 
of West Virginia. He died at Lewisburg April 28, 1884. 

*HlEiirRY Hamiltok Mathias, Indiana, '62, DePauw, '62, served from 
1862 to 1865 in the Union army in the 6th Indiana Cavalry. After the war 
he settled down to the practice of law at Greencastle, Ind. From 1881 
to 1882 and 1884 to 1903 he was professor of law at DePauw University. 
He died at Greencastle in 1903. 

CouRTLAXD CusHiNG Matson, DcPauw, '62, left college when the war 
broke out and enlisted in the Union army as a private in the 16tlT Indiana 
Volunteers. He was gradually promoted and in December, 1862, was ap- 
pointed lieutenant-colonel of the 6th Indiana Cavalry, after all of its field 



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officers had been killed at the battle of Iliclimond, Ky. Near the close of 
the war he was promoted to be colonel of the 5th and 6th Indiana Cavalry, 
which were consolidated. He began the practice of the law in 1865 and in 
1868, 1870 and 1872 was prosecuting attorney for various courts in Indiana. 
He was elected chairman of the Democratic state central committee in 1878. 
He was a member of Congress from 1881 to 1889, and in 1888 was the Dem- 
ocratic candidate for governor of Indiana, but was defeated. He has been 
attorney for the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago R. R. and is now a mem- 
ber of the State Board of Tax Commissioners. He resides at Greencastle, 
Ind. 

*jA3tES Matthews, Washington & Jefft-rson, '43, studied theology and 
became a Presbyterian minister and was pastor at Carlisle, Millersburg, 
and Concord, Ky., from 1847 to 1854. He then became professor of Latin 
at Centre College and remained there, except during the war, until 1867, 
when he became principal of the Presbyterian Academy of Indiana. In 
1869 he accepted the pastorate of the Broadway Church at Logansport, 
Ind., and remained there until 1874, when he became pastor of a church 
at Marysville, Cal. In 1876 he became president of University College at 
San Francisco and served until 1891, when he retired. During the war he 
was a chaplain in the Union army in the 19th Kentucliy Infantry. He pub- 
lished numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 
18, 1893. 

*Stani.ey Matthews, Cinciiuiati, '40, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
July 21, 1824; he graduated from Kenyon College in 1840; studied law and 
commenced practice in Maury County, Tennessee. He returned to Cincin- 
nati in 1844 and was appointed assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County 
in 1845. He was editor of the Cincinnati Herald from 1846 to 1849 and 
clerk of the state assembly 1848 to 1849. He was judge of the county 
Common Pleas Court 1850 to 18.52, and was elected a state senator in 1853. 
He became LTnited States district attorney for Southern Ohio in 1858, and 
held this position imtil his resignation in March, 1861. He served as lieu- 
tenant-colonel of the 23rd Ohio Volunteers, colonel of the 57th Ohio 
Volunteers and brigadier-general in the Union army 1861 to 1863. He 
was made judge of the Cincinnati Superior Court in 1863 and served until 
his resignation in .Tidy, 1864. He was a presidential elector on the Re- 
publican tickets of 1864 and 1868. He was defeated for the Forty-fifth 
Congress; he was elected a United States Senator March 20, 1877 as a 
Republican, serving until Marcli 3, 1879. He was appointed justice of the 
LTnited State Supreme Court in January, 1881, but lacked confirmation. He 
was renominated March 15, 1881, and confirmed May 12, 1881, and served 



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until his death at Washington, D. C, March 22, 1888. He was recorder 
or corresponding secretary of his chapter and was orator of the Fra- 
ternity convention of 1873. 

*Matthew Fontaine Maury, Jr.. Virginia Military Institute, '71, was 
a mining engineer of eminence. He attended the Royal School of Mines 
in England from 1866 to 1869. He was superintendent of Salisbury Fur- 
nace from 1872 to 1876. He was director of the West "Virginia exhibit at 
the Centennial Exposition of 1876. He was the author of "Resources of the 
Upper Kanawha" and "Resources of West Virginia," and was a con- 
tributor to the engineering and mining journals. He was a member of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers and a fellow of the London 
Geological Society. He died in 1876. 

Allison Maxwell, Indiana, '68, graduated as valedictorian of his class. 
After his graduation he became a tutor of Ancient Languages at the Uni- 
versity of Indiana, a position which he occupied until 1870. He then stud- 
ied medicine and graduated from Miami Medical College in 1876. From 
1877 to 1880 he was assistant editor of the American Practitioner. From 
1886 to 1908 he was professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at 
the Centre College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indiana, and since 1908 has 
been professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and dean of the 
Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also medical director of the 
State Life Insurance Company at Indianapolis. He resides at Indianapolis. 

Robert Burns Mayes, Mississippi, '88, graduated from the law de- 
partment of the University of Mississippi in 1890 and began the practice 
at Hazelhurst, Miss. In 1892 and 1893 he was a member of the Mississippi 
Senate. From 1903 to 1906 he was judge of the Chancery Court, and 
since 1906 has been a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, since 
1910 its chief justice. He resides at Jackson. 

*James William Mendenhall, Ohio Wesleyan, '64, immediately after 
his graduation entered the ministry of the Methodist episcopal church and 
served in many prominent positions in that church. He received the de- 
grees of M. A. from Ohio Wesleyan in 1867; Ph. D. from Mt. Union in 
1880; D. D. from Mt. Union in 1884, and LL. D. from Cornell in 1888. 
For several years he was president of the Freemont Ohio Collegiate Insti- 
tute. He was the author of a number of books, including "Echoes from 
Palestine," and "Plato and Paul." In 1888 he was elected editor of the 
Methodist Review, the leading quarterly of that denomination, and con- 
tinued as such until his death, which occurred at New York in 1892. 




SAMUEL MERRILL 
Wabash '51 




SAMUEL MERWIN 
Northwestern '00 



EDGAR SANFORD KKEX MERRKLL 221 

Thomas Corwin Mendexhai.l, Western Reserve, '69, was professor of 
Physics and Mecliaiiics at Ohio State University, 1873-78; of Physics at the 
Imperial University of Japan, 1878-81; of Physics, Ohio State University, 
1881-84. From 1884 to 1886 he was in the United States Signal Corps. He 
then became president of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, a position he re- 
tained until 1889, when he was appointed superintendent of the United 
States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1894 he became president of the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he remained until he retired in 1901. 
He has served on a great number of public commissions; on the United 
States Lighthouse Board from 1889 to 1894, on the Behring Sea Commis- 
sion in 1891, on the British and American Boundary Commission, 1892-94. 
He was chairman of the Massachusetts Highway Commission from 1896 to 
1901. He was secretary of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science in 1876; vice president in 1882, and president in 1889. He re- 
ceived the degree of Ph. D. from Ohio State in 1878, Sc. D. from Rose Poly- 
technic in 1886 and LL. D. from Michigan in 1887. He resides at Ra- 
venna, Ohio. 

*Ui,YssEs Mercur, Washington & Jefferson, '42, graduated at the head 
of his class. After leaving college he studied law and practiced with much 
success. In 1861 he became presiding judge of the 13th Judicial District 
of Pennsylvania, a position he retained until 1865, when he was elected to 
Congress and served for four terms until 1872, when he became judge of 
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and from 1883 to the time of his 
death in 1887 was chief justice. He was a memlier of many learned socie- 
ties. He died at Towanda. Pa., May 6, 1887. 

Charles Oliver Merica, DePauw, '91, received his M. A. degree from 
Iowa Wesleyan in 1892. From 1891 to 1894 he was president of Dakota 
Wesleyan University; from 1894 to 1897 professor of Economics at Law- 
rence College and of Sociology from 1903 to 1907. He was superintendent 
of the Wisconsin Industrial School for boys, 1897-1903. Since 1908 he has 
been president of the University of Wyoming at Laramie, Wyo. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Lawrence in 1907. * B K. 

Edgar Saxford Keex Merrell, St. I>awrence, '87, studied law and for 
a number of years practiced at Lowville, N. Y. He was elected county 
judge and surrogate of Lewis County in 1902 and at the expiration of his 
term re-elected in 1908. He was elected as justice of the Supreme Court in 
1909 and served as a trial justice until 1913, when he was designated an 
associate justice of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. He resides 
at Lowville, N. Y. * B K. 



222 BETAS OP ACHIEVEMENT 

*JosEPH BiDWELL Meuriam^ Wcstcrn Reserve, '48, became a school 
teacher and was principal of the Shaw Academy from 1848 to 1862. From 
1854 to 1861 he was cashier of the City Bank of Cleveland, during which 
time he was the author of "Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Arithmetic." 
From 1894 to 1901 he was president and general manager of the Merriam 
& Morgan Paraffin Company. He died in 1907. 

*RiCHARD Thomas Merrick^ Washington & Jefferson, '43, attended 
Georgetown College at Georgetown, D. C, before entering Jefferson. After 
his graduation he studied law and practiced in Maryland. He served as a 
captain of dragoons in the war with Mexico. After his return home he rap- 
idly rose to a position of eminence at the bar and became in 1850 counsel 
for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which position he retained until his 
death. He was a member of the Maryland Legislature from 1850 to 1852. 
He also prepared a digest of the decisions of the Court of Appeals of 
Maryland. He was constantly engaged in cases of the utmost importance, 
chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. He defended John 
Surratt in his trial for the murder pf President Lincoln and represented 
the government in the Star Route cases. He made arguments before the 
Electoral Commission, and was by many regarded as the leader of the bar 
at Washington. He established the Merrick prizes at Georgetown Univer- 
sity. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1861 from Georgetown Univer- 
sity. He died June 24th, 1885. 

Samuel Merrill, Wabash, '51, entered the Union army at the outbreak 
of the war and became in succession lieutenant, captain, major, lieuteant- 
colonel and colonel of the 70th Indiana Volunteers. For many years he was 
a member of the publishing firm of Merrill & Co., of Indianapolis. From 
1890 to 1894 he was consul general of the United States at Calcutta. In 
1908-9 he was commander of the department of California and Nevada of 
the Grand Army of the Republic. He is the author of a history of the 70th 
Indiana Regiment. He resides at Long Beach, Cal. 

*Daniel Ostrander Merwin, Wesleyan, '40, after graduation became 
a planter near Natchez, Miss. He entered the Confederate army in 1861 as 
a private and before the close of the war in 1865 was a major. He moved 
to the north to recuperate his health and died at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1867. 

Samuel Merwik, Northwestern, '00, is the author of much popular 
fiction. Jointly with Henry K. Webster he wrote "The Shortline War," 
Calumet K," and "Comrade John." Alone he wrote "The Road to Front- 
enac," "The Whip Hand," "His Little World," "The Merry Annie," "An- 




ROBERT "W. MIERS 
Indiana '70 




THOMAS F. MILLARD 
Missouri '88 



cL.iiii<:xci': HEATH miller 223 

tliony the Absolute," and "The Roadhuiklers." From 1905 to 1911 he was 
editor of tlie inagaziiie ealled "Sueeess." In 1907 he traveled in China to 
.study the opium question for that magazine, and wrote as the result a 
l)ook, "Drugging a Nation." He resides at New Yorlv City. 

lioi;i;i(T Wai.tku Miimis, Indiana, '70, reeeivcd, the degree of 1,1,. 15. in 
1871 and is a jiracticing lawyer at Bloomiiigton, Ind. From 1871. to 1878 
he was proseeuting attorney of Monroe County, Ind., and from 1878 to 1880 
a member of the Indiana Legislature. He was judge of the 10th Circuit 
Court from 1883 to 1896. In 1894. he was nominated for the position of sec- 
retary of state, but failed of election. He was a trustee of the University 
of Indiana from 1881 to 1893. From 1897 to 190.5 he was a meml)er of 
Congress. He resides at Bloomington, Ind. 

Henhy Dixon Miles, Pennsylvania State College, '89, is president and 
treasurer of the Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co. at Buffalo, N. Y. He 
was president of the ,\merican Foundrymen dissociation in 1912-1913. 

•Benjamin Franklin Millaiiu, Western Reserve, '43, after graduation 
studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary and in 1847 entered the min- 
istry of the Presbyterian church. He served several churches as pastor and 
then moving to Chicago, was editor of the Chicago Tribune from 1860 to 
1876. He retired to Naj^les, N. Y., where he died in 1910. He was the 
founder of the Michigan chapter. 

Thomas Fhanklin Fairfax Millabi), Missouri, '88, is a well known 
journrlist. After his graduation he studied law, but never ])racticed-. 
From 1895 to 1897 he was a reporter and an editor on sundry St. Louis 
newspapers. In 1898 he reported the Spanish war for the New York 
Herald. He was war correspondent for Scrlbiiers'' Mayazine, the New 
York Herald, the New York Timex, the I>ondon Daily Mail, and other 
journals, in the Greco-Turkish war, Boer and Spanish-American wars, in 
the Chinese Boxer uprising, Russo-Japanese war, and in insurrections in 
Santo Domingo and Venezuela. He is now editor of the Daihi China 
Pren.t. at Shanghai, China. He is the author of "The New Far East," 
",\merica and the Far Eastern Question." He resides at Shanghai. 

*Ci,aiience Heath Miller, Randolph-Macon, '80, Texas, '86, was a 
student at the University of Edinburgh from 1884 to 1886. After his 
graduation from the law de])artment of the University of Texas he became 
professor of law at the University and in 1905 was made dean of the law 
deyiartment. He died at Austin, Texas, in 1908. 



224 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

David Reed Miller^ Monmouth, '74, graduated from the Allegheny 
Theological Seminary in 1877 and entered the ministry of the United Pres- 
byterian church. He has been pastor of a number of prominent churches 
in his denomination in the central western states. Since 1902 he has been 
editor of The United Presbyterian. He is the author of "The Beta War 
Song," "A Beautiful Life," "Where Rivers Meet," "The Red Svv^an's 
Nest." He resides at Oakmont, Pittsburgh, Pa. He received the degree 
of D. D. from Grove City College in 1897. 

Edward Terhune Miller^ Westminster, '89, is practicing law in St. 
Louis, where he is general attorney for the St. Louis and San Francisco 
Railway Company. 

*JoHN D. MiLLERj Hanover, '68, served in the Union army from 1862 
to 1865 as a private in the 7th Indiana Infantry before attending college. 
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870 at Greensburg, Ind. 
From 1872 to 1874 he was a member of the Indiana Legislature. From 

1891 to 1892 he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana and from 

1892 to 1898 was chief justice of Indiana. He died in 1898. 

John Henry Miller, Richmond, '74, graduated with the degree of 
A. M. The following year he went to California where he studied law and 
was admitted to the bar in 1879. He is the senior member of the law firm 
of Miller & White, of San Francisco. He has practiced in patent causes 
since 1885 and conducted much important litigation in many states in the 
interests of large corporations. 

John Stocker Miller, St. Lawrence, '69, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1870. From 1871 to 1872 he was professor of Mathe- 
matics and from 1872 to 1874 professor of Latin and Greek at St. Law- 
rence University. Since 1878 he has practiced law at Chicago, making a 
specialty of corporation practice, in which he is particularly eminent. From 
1891 to 1893 he was corporation counsel of Chicago. He resides in Chicago. 

Melville Winans Miller, DePauw, '78, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar in 1879. He was county surveyor of Tippecanoe county, Ind., 
from 1896 to 1903; editor of the Lafayette, Ind., Morning Journal during 
1902-03. He was assistant secretary of the Interior from 1903 to 1905, and 
editor of the Lafayette Courier in 1909. He was instructor in English, La- 
fayette high school, 1906-11; with Warren Brothers Company, Bitulithic 
pavements, in 1912-13, and superintendent of water works, Lafayette, 
Ind., 1914. He is the author of poems, "Swedish Lyrics," "Songs of the 
Heart," "Songs Religious," "Songs of Nature," short stories, "The High 




MELVILLE "W. MILLER 
DePauw '78 




ALEXANDER J. MONTAGUE 
Richmond 'S2 



SAMUEL ALFRED MITCHELL 225 

Gap Ghost," "The Russian Ainhassador," and several plays, "The Bach- 
elors," "Find Dobhs," "The Matehniaker," "The SiiflFragette," "She Votes." 
He resides at Lafayette, Ind. 

Mei.vin Lee Millioax, Oliio Wesleyan, '84, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar and has practiced at Springfield, Ohio. In 1891 and 1892 
he was general attorney for the Ohio Southern R. R. From 1892 to 1903 he 
was secretary of the Springfield Foundry Co. Since 1904 he has been a di- 
rector of the American Trust and Savings Bank. He was mayor of Spring- 
field from 1901 to 1903 and since 1903 has been president of the Fairbanks 
Company. 

Reuben Webster Mii.i.saps, DePauw, '.54, is a banker of Jackson, 
Miss., where he is president of the Capital State Bank and the Citizens' 
Savings Bank and Trust Co. He is also president of the Merchants & 
Traders' Bank at Hazelhurst, Miss., and of the Bank of Forest, Miss. He 
is vice president of the Capital National Bank of Jackson, and a director 
of the First National Bank of Vicksburg, the First National Bank of 
Greenville, Miss., and also of the Brookhaven Bank & Trust Co. He is 
also a member of the board of directors of the Illinois Central Railway. 
Prior to his attendance at DePauw, he was a student at Hanover College 
for two years, and after his graduation at DePauw, studied at the Har- 
vard Law School, graduating in 18.58. At the outbreak of the war, he en- 
listed in the Confederate army and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel 
of the Ninth Arkansas Regiment. He was wounded in the battles of Shi- 
loh and Nashville, and immediately after tlie war engaged in a general 
business, sul)se(piently turning to banking. He is the foimder and one of 
the trustees of Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss. 

SAsrrEi. Af.fiieu Mitchei.i,, Johns Hopkins, '98, received his master's 
degree from Queen's University in 1894, and became a Fellow in Astron- 
omy at Johns Hopkins, from which he received the degree of Ph. D. in 
1898. From 1899 to 1913 he was connected with the department of Astron- 
omy at Columbia as tutor, instructor and adjunct professor and also 
served as secretary of the faculty of that department. Since 1912 he has 
been assistant professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, and 
since 1913 professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia. He was 
astronomer to the U. S. Naval Observatory Eclipse Expedition to Georgia 
in 1900, to the East Indies in 1901 and to Spain in 190.5. He is a Fellow 
of the Royal y\stronomical Society, and of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science and a member of the Astronomical and Astro- 
phvsical Society of America. He is the author of many scientific papers. 
* B K, 2 S, T B n. 



226 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*Thomas Green Mitchell, Cincinnati, '40, received the degree of LL. 
B. from the Cincinnati Law School in 1841 and practiced law in Cincinnati 
all his life. In 1863 when Ohio wa,s invaded by Confederate troops he was 
intrusted with the defense of Cincinnati with the rank of general and suc- 
cessfully prepared to protect the city. He died Dec. 19, 1879. He was 
president of the Fraternity convention of 1842. 

Charles McClellan Moderwell, Wooster, '89, received the degree of 
Ph. M. in 1892 and engaged in the coal business, becoming the western 
sales agent of the Montana Coal and Coke Company. He was for some 
years president of the C. M. Moderwell Coal Company and is now presi- 
dent of the United Coal Mining Company. He is one of the trustees of 
Wooster University. He resides in Chicago. 

Herbert Charles Moffitt, California, '89, graduated with the degree 
of B. S. He then took a medical course at the Harvard Medical School 
and received his M. D. degree in 1894. He has practiced medicine at San 
Francisco from 1898 to date and is professor of medicine at the University 
of California. ^ B K. 

Elias Riggs Monfout, Hanover, '65, graduated from the Cincinnati 
Law School in 1867 and for a time practiced law at Greensburg, Ind. 
Since 1874 he has been senior member of the firm of Monfort Co., publish- 
ers of the Herald and Presbyter, and has been an editorial writer for it for 
many years. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union Army as a private and was 
discharged as a captain in 1864 on account of wounds received at the battle 
of Gettysburg. He was for several years president of the Mamolith Car- 
bon Paint Co. He is president of the trustees of the Presbytery of Cin- 
cinnati, a trustee of Lane Seminary and Hanover College and has occupied 
many other positions of honor and trust. He received the degree of LL. 
D. in 1884. He resides at Cincinnati where he has been president of the 
city school board and county clerk, and is now postmaster at Cincinnati. 

Francis Cassatt Monfort, Hanover, '64, Wabash, '64, studied at Mc- 
Cormick and Lane Theological Seminaries and the Universities of Edin- 
burgh and Berlin and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He 
was pastor of the Fourth Church at Cincinnati from 1869 to 1873 and of 
the First Church in the same city from 1878 to 1888. Since 1873 he has 
been editor of the Herald and Presbyter. He is the author of a number 
of books including "Sermons for Silent Sabbaths," "Socialism and City 
Evangelization," "The Law of Appeals," Ecclesiastical Discipline," "Ap- 
plied Theology." He resides at Cincinnati. 



GEORGE DUNNING MOORE 227 

Andrew Jacksox Montague, Richmond, '82, graduated from the law 
department of the University of Virginia in 1885 and began practice of the 
law immediately. From 1894 to 1898 he was United States district attor- 
ney for the Western District of Virginia. From 1898 to 1902 he was attor- 
ney general of Virginia and from 1902 to 1906 was governor of Virginia. 
Since 1906 he has practiced law at Richmond and is dean of the Law School 
of Richmond College. He was a delegate of the United States to the Pan 
American Conference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906, and to the International 
Conference on Maritime Law held at Brussels in 1909 and 1910. He is one 
of the trustees of the Carnegie Institution. He received the degree of LL. 
D. from Brown University in 1903. He resides at Richmond, Va. 

Richard Ward Montague, Iowa, '83, studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in Iowa. In 1890 he moved to Oregon and settled at Portland. 
He was a member of the commission which drafted the charter for the 
city of Portland in 1901, and of a commission to draft a charter in 
1908 and again in 1911 and 1913, the last being adopted by the city in 
1913. He is a member of the Editorial Council National Municipal Re- 
view and of the State Conservation Committee. In 1912-1913 he was di- 
rector of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He was president of the 
Oregon Bar Association in 1908. He was one of the compilers of the Codes 
and Statutes of Oregon and is lecturer on Equity in the law department of 
the University of Oregon. He resides at Portland, Oregon. 4> B K. 

David Hastings Moore, Ohio, '60, graduated as salutatorian. In 1861 
he became captain of the 87th Ohio Volunteers in the Union army and rose 
to be a lieutenant-colonel of the 125th Ohio Volunteers in 1864. He then 
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and held a number 
of important pastorates. From 1875 to 1880 he was president of Cincinnati 
Wesleyan College and from 1880 to 1889 president of the University of Den- 
ver. In 1889 and 1890 he was editor of the Western Christian Advocate. 
In 1900 he was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. For four 
years he was stationed at Shanghai with special jurisdiction over the mis- 
sions of Japan, Korea and China. In 1904 he moved to Portland, Oregon, 
and in 1908 to Cincinnati. He retired from active service in 1912. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Ohio Wesleyan, 187.5, and LL. D. from Mt. 
Union in 1896 and Denver in 1899. He was orator at the fraternity con- 
vention of 1864, poet of the convention of 1870, and a member of the board 
of directors in 1879-80. He is the author of the "Beta Grip" and other Fra- 
ternity songs. He resides in Indianapolis, Ind. 

George Dunning Moore, Harvard, '84, studied chemistry in Ger- 
many and received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Bonn in 



228 BETAS OP ACHIEVEMENT 

1887. Since 1889 he has been professor of Chemistry at the Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute. He resides at Worcester, Mass. 

*James Cbeecy MoorEj North Carolina, '54, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Jackson, Miss., where he practiced until the out- 
break of the war. He became lieutenant-colonel of Blythes', Missis- 
sippi, Regiment in the Confederate army in 1861 and was kilkd in battle 
at Mumfordsville, Ky., in 1862. 

*JosEPH MuRTAUGH MooRE, Washington & Jefferson, '46, attended 
Franklin College, La., during 1841 and 1842. After graduation he studied 
law and began its practice at Opelousas, La. He was a member of the 
Louisiana Legislature fronf 1861 to 1864 and of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1879. He was nominated for Congress in 1874, but declined the 
honor. From 1880 to 1888 he was a judge of the Louisiana Court of Ap- 
peals for the Third District. He died in 1890. 

Philip North Moore, Miami, '70, is a well known mining engineer of 
St. Louis, Mo. He attended the Columbia University School of Mines from 
1870 to 1872. For several years he served on the Geological Surveys of 
Michigan, Missouri and Kentucky. From 1878 to 1881 he practiced at 
Leadville, Colo., as a mining engineer and metallurgist and from 1882 to 
1889 he was treasurer and managing director of the Slate Creek Iron Com- 
pany of Olympia, Ky. He was manager of the German Bar Mining Co. 
and the Conrey Placer Mining Co. at Virginia City, Nev., from 1897 to 
1900 and president of the Tecumseh Iron Co. of Alabama from 1890 to 
1908. He is a specialist and serves as consulting engineer to mining enter- 
prises. He resides in St. Louis, Mo. 

*Tho]mas W. Moore, Miami, '44, studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in 1846 and practiced at Hamilton, Ohio, until his death, which oc- 
curred in June, 1893. During the Civil war he was colonel of the 167th 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From 1870 to 1873 he was a member of the 
Ohio Senate. 

*Wii,LiAM AusTix Moore, Michigan, '50, was admitted to the bar in 
Detroit in 1852. He was a specialist in corporation law. From 1861 to 1864 
he was president of the Detroit Board of Education. From 1868 to 1877 
he was vice president of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
and from 1877 to 1906 he was president of the Detroit Fire and Marine 
Insurance Company. He was the founder of the Detroit Museum of Art. 
He was president of the fraternity convention of 1877. He died in 1906. 




DAVID H. MOORK 
Ohio '60 




OLIVER P. MORTON 
Miami '47 



JOHN LINDSAY MORE HE AD 229 

Ja]mes T(t7RXER) MooBEHEAD, North Carolina, "58, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar. He entered the Confederate army in 1861 and became 
colonel of the 53rd North Carolina Infantry. In 1866 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the North Carolina Legislature. From 1872 to 1876 he was a member 
of the North Carolina Senate and president of the Senate in 1872. He is 
practicing law at Greensboro, N. C. 

*J(ames) Turner Moreiiead, North Carolina, '61, did not graduate but 
entered the Confederate army, becoming adjutant of the 3rd North Caro- 
lina cavalry and serving throughout the war. He was a member of the 
North Carolina Senate from 1870 to 1874 and of the State Constitutional 
Convention in 1875. From 1881 to 1890 he was vice president of the North 
Carolina Midland R. R. Company. He died at Leakesville, North Caro- 
lina, in 1908. 

Waruen King Moorehead^ Denison, '88, did not graduate but began 
the study of American Archaeology while in college. He is a specialist in 
Indian Archaeology and Ethnology. He was curator of the Ohio State 
Archaeological and Historical Socley and State University Museum, 1894- 
1897. He is the author of "Primitive Man in Ohio," "Fort Ancient," "The 
Stone Age in North America" and sixty pamphlets and reports dealing 
with archaeological subjects. Has been curator of Department of Arch- 
aeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., for thirteen years. He has 
explored extensively throughout the United States, having in charge a 
total of seventeen expeditions. He is a member of the United States 
board of Indian Commissioners and secvired indictment of grafters in 
Minnesota and exposed deplorable conditions in Oklahoma. These inves- 
tigations resulted in congressional action for the protection of Indians. 
He received a degree of M. A. from Dartmouth in 1901. He is a Fellow 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a mem- 
ber Societe Prehistorique Francaise, American Anthropological Associa- 
tion, and the Boston Authors Club. 

*JoHN Lindsay Morehead, North Carolina, '53, graduated with first 
honor in 1853. From 1854 to 1861 he was a planter and banker. In 1861 
he entered the Confederate army and became a colonel and aid-de-camp to 
General Zebulon B. Vance. After the war he settled at Charlotte, N. C, as 
a merchant, planter and banker. He was a director of the North Carolina 
R. R. and the Atlantic & North Carolina R. R. and of the Commercial 
National Bank at Charlotte for many years. He died at Charlotte, N. C, 
in 1901. 



230 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Robert Jarrel Morgan, Georgia, '48, after leaving college studied 
law and engaged in practice at Memphis, Tenn. From 1867 to 1869 he was 
city attorney and from 1869 to 1878 chancellor of the Supreme Court of 
Tennessee. In 1880 he was a presidential elector. Since 1878 he has prac- 
ticed as a specialist in corporation law and is attorney for the St. Louis & 
Iron Mountain R. R. and other corporations. He resides at Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Howard Morris, Wisconsin, '77, received the degree of LL. B. in 1879, 
and has practiced law at Milwaukee since. From 1890 to 1893 he was gen- 
eral solicitor for the Wisconsin Central Railway Co. From 1893 to 1899 he 
was its receiver and general counsel. From 1899 to 1905 he was its gen- 
eral counsel and in 1905 and 1906 its vice president. He is president of the 
American McKenna Process Co. He resides at Milwaukee. 

John Morris, Randolph-Macon, '83, graduated from the law depart- 
ment of the University of Georgia in 1885. He attended the University of 
Berlin in 1891-2 and the University of Berlin and Freiburg in 1900-01. He 
studied languages at Amsterdam and Copenhagen. He practiced law in 
Alabama for a number of years. Since 1896 has been professor of Ger- 
manic Languages at the University of Georgia. He is the author of "Or- 
ganic History of English Words" and has been an occasional contributor to 
learned journals. He resides at Athens, Ga. 

Frank White Morrison, Wabash, '73, left college before graduation 
and graduated at Williams. He is a lawyer and practices at Indianapolis. 
He is attorney for the Louisville, New Albany, Chicago Railway, is presi- 
dent of the Indiana Title and Loan Co. and vice president of the American 
Central Life Insurance Co. 

* Henry Ruffner Morrison, Washington & Lee, 58, studied law and 
was admitted to the bar at Staunton, Va. In 1861 he entered the Confed7 
erate army as captain of the 4th Virginia Infantry. From 1863 to 1865 
he was an adjutant in Edgar's Battalion. From 1865 to 1867 he was pro- 
fessor of Greek at Oakland College. He then practiced law at Delta, La., 
where he died April 16, 1879. 

*JoHN Miller Morton, Miami, '68, did not graduate. He studied law 
and was admitted to the bar at San Francisco. From 1878 to 1880 he was 
United States consul at Honolulu, then one of the most important of the 
United States consulates. From 1880 to 1884 he was surveyor of the Port 
of San Francisco. He died at San Francisco in 1908. 



EDWARD WARLOCK M I'M FORD 231 

*Oliver Perry Mortox, Miami, '47, was born Aug. 4, 1823. He was 
apprenticed to a hatter at the age of 15, and worked at the trade four 
years. He entered Miami University at the age of 19 and remained in 
college three years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847, 
and commenced practice at Centerville, Ind. He was elected circuit judge 
in 1852. He was defeated as the Republican nominee for governor in 
1856, but was elected lieutenant governor in 1860, with the understanding 
that Gen, H. S. Lane, who was placed at the head of the ticket, was to be 
elected to the United States Senate in the event of Republican success, 
which plan was carried out and he became governor of Indiana. He was 
elected governor in 1864. He was elected United States senator as a 
Union Republican to succeed Henry S. Lane, and was re-elected, serving 
from March 4, 1867, until his death at Indianapolis Nov. 1, 1877. He was 
stricken by partial paralysis in the fall of 1865, from which lie never 
recovered, and was compelled to do his work by secretaries, to be carried 
in and out of the Senate, and to address the Senate seated. He was ap- 
pointed minister to England in 1870, but declined the appointment. He 
was a member of the electoral commission in 1877 which decided the elec- 
tion between Hayes and Tilden. He received the degree of LL. B. from 
the Cincinnati Law School in 18.52, and of LI>. D. from Butler University 
in 1871. He was president of the Fraternity convention of 1871. 

*Edgar J. MosELEY, Hampden-Sidncy, '58, after his graduation studied 
law and began its practice at Richmond, Va. At the outbreak of the war 
he became major of tlie Richmond Howitzers in the Confederate army. He 
was killed at the siege of Petersburg in 1865. 

Woodson Moss, Missouri, '74, is a physician residing at Columbia, Mo. 
From 1875 to 1878 he was an instructor in anatomy at the University of 
Missouri and from 1878 to 1883 professor of Anatomy. From 1883 to 
1891 he was professor of Physiology and from 1891 to 1900 of the Prac- 
tice of Medicine. Since the latter date he has been professor of the Prac- 
tice of Medicine and Therapeutics and secretary of the medical faculty 
of the University. In 1902 he was president of the Missouri State Medical 
Association. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1901. 

Edward Wari.ock Mumford, Pennsylvania, '89, has been engaged in 
newspaper and magazine work ever since his graduation. In 1889 and 1890 
he was in the business department of Santa Clau.i. In 1890 and 1891 he was 
assistant editor of the Ladiex' Home Journal. From 1896 to 1901 lie was 
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232 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

and from 1901 to 1906 bursar of the University. Since 1907 he has been 
connected with the Penn Publishing Co. as editor and publisher. He has 
contributed to many magazines and is the author of "Smiles in Rime" and 
"Bubbles." He resides in Philadelphia. # B K. 

*Theodore Thori^ton Muxger, Western Reserve, '51, left college be- 
fore graduation and going to Yale received his A. B. degree in 1851 and four 
years later graduated from the Yale Divnity School and entered the ministry 
of the Congregational church. He served as pastor at Dorchester, Haver- 
hill and Lawrence, Mass., at San Jose, Cal., and at North Adams, Mass., and 
finally at the United Church, New Haven, .Conn., becoming pastor there in 
1885. In 1891 he became pastor emeritus of the church and continued to live 
in New Haven. He was an author of note and his published works include: 
"On the Threshold," 1880; "The Freedom of Faith," 1883; "Lamps and 
Paths," 1883; "Appeal to Life," 1887; "Character Through Inspiration," 
1896; "Horace Bushnell, Preacher and Theologian," 1899; "Essays for the 
Day," 1904. The Noble Lectures at Harvard University for 1898, under the 
title, "The Message of Christ to Manhood," include a lecture by Dr. Mun- 
ger on "The Message of Christ to the Will." He received the degree of S. T. 
D. from Illinois College in 1883. He was a member of the Yale corporation 
from 1887 until his death, which occurred Jan. 11, 1910. 

*KE]sr>rETT McKenzie Murchisox, North Carolina, '53, became a 
cotton planter and merchant. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army and 
became colonel of the 16th North Carolina Infantry, serving until the 
close of the war. He then moved to New York City, where he was a 
prominent merchant and one of the founders of the Cotton Exchange. In 
1899 he removed to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he died in 1905. 




THEODORE T. MUNCER 
Wtstern Reserve '51 




JOHN W. NOBLE 

Miami '50 



N 



*Ai.Bixus Nance, Kjiox, '70, studied law and was admitted to the bar 
and began its practice at Osceola, Iowa. From 1878 to 1888 he was presi- 
dent of the Osceola Bank and Stromsburg Bank. From 1875 to 1879 he 
was a member of the Nebraska Legislature and speaker from 1877 to 1879. 
He was chairman of the Nebraska delegation to tlie Republican National 
convention of 1876. He was governor of Nel)raska from 1879 to 1883. He 
died at Chicago Dec. 6, 1911. 

Alfked Nathax, Stevens, '90, is president of the Nathan Manufactur- 
ing Company, a corporation engaged in tiie inanfacture of locomotive 
equipment. He is also a director of tiie International Steam Pump Com- 
pany. He resides in New York City. 

Orvii.i.e James Nave, Ohio Wesleyan, '70, studied theology and entered 
the ministry of the Metiiodist Episcopal churcii. In 1882 he became post 
chaplain in the army and from 1901 to 190.5 was chaplain of the 3rd 
United States Infantry and retired witli the rank of major in 1905. Since 
1904 he has been president of Nave's Topical Bilile Home School. He is the 
author of Nave's "Topical Bible," the "Student's Bible," and various text 
books connected with his work in the Bible School. He has been president 
and field secretary of the Association of Chaplains of tiie Military and 
Naval Forces of the United States since 1912. He resides at Los Angeles. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Ohio Wesleyan in 1895 and LL. D. 
from Nebraska Wesleyan in 1897. 

*Samuel Sobieski Net.i.es, Wesleyan, '46, was a Canadian from New- 
burg, Ont. Innnediately after his graduation he became principal of an 
academy at Newburg, where he remained a year. He then studied for the 
ministry and became a Methodist clergyman. In 1850 he was made presi- 
dent of Victoria College, Ontario, and retained the position for thirty-one 
years, when he retired and continued to reside at Coburg, Ont. He died 
there Oct. 21, 1887. He received the degree of D. D. from Queens College in 
1860 and LL. D. from "Victoria College in 1872. 

James Poyxtz Net,sox, Washington and I^ee, '69, graduated as a civil 
and mining engineer. From 1869 to 1876 he was connected with the Ciiesa- 
peake & Ohio Railroad. From 1876 to 1880 he was a member of the faculty 
of Kenyon College and principal of Milnor Hall. From 1891 to 1897 he was 

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234 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

dean of the Civil Engineering Department of the State University of Ken- 
tucky. In 1898 and 1899 he was bridge and office engineer of the Chesa- 
peake & Memphis Railroad. From 1901 to 1902 he wa.s chief engineer of 
the R. F. & P. railroad. At present he is a member of the valuation com- 
mittee of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. He is a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa, one of the founders of which society was one of his ancestors. He 
resides at Lexington, Ky. 4> B K. 

*RoBERT Peebles Nevix, Washington & Jefferson, '42, was a noted 
journalist of Pittsburg, Pa. In 1870 he established the Pittsburg T)aihi 
Leader, and in 1880 the Pittsburg Times. He was a frequent contributor 
to the monthly periodicals, notably Lippincotts and the Atlantic and was 
a prolific writer of stories of adventure, including "Tom, the Tinker," 
"Black Robes," "Les Trois Rois," "In the Wilderness," "Tracks of a Trav- 
eler," "About a Dog," etc. He died at Sewickley, Pa., in 1908. 

*JoHN Stoughtox Newberry, Michigan, '47, was the valedictorian of 
his class. From 1847 to 1849 he was a civil engineer on the Michigan Cen- 
tral Railroad. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852. 
During the war he wa^ provost-marshal of Michigan from 1862 to 1864. 
As a lawyer he was a specialist in admiralty and corporation law and was 
the author of "Newberry's Admiralty Reports." He was the president of 
the Michigan Car Wheel Company and of more than thirty other manu- 
facturing and commercial corporations. He erected and endowed the pub- 
lic hospital at Detroit, Mich. He was a member of Congress from 1879 to 
1881. He died at Detroit, Jan. 2, 1887. 

*JonN Stroxg Newberry, Western Reserve, '46, studied medicine and 
received the degree of M. D. from the Cleveland Medical College in 1848, 
but his natural bent was toward the sciences. From 1855 to 1860 he was 
United States Geologist. In 1857 he became professor of Geology and Nat- 
ural History at Columbian (now George Washington University) where he 
remained until 1866. From 1861 to 1866 he was secretary of the United 
States Sanitary Commission. In 1866 he was appointed professor of Geology 
at the School of Mines of Columbia, a position he retained until his death. 
In 1869 he was appointed State Geologist of Ohio. From 1869 until his 
death he was president of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. He died at Hartford, Conn., Dec. 7th, 1892. He received the 
degree of LL. D. from Western Reserve in 1867. 

Waldo Newcomer, Johns Hopkins, '89, has been engaged in commercial, 
pursuits since leaving college. He is president of the National Exchange 



FRAXCIS EUGENE AIPHER 235 

Bank of Baltimore, and of the Baltimore Clearing House Association, and 
vice president of tlie Atlantic Coast Line Co. 

Edgar Douglas Nkwman, Randolph-Macon, '76, Virginia Military In- 
stitute, '76, graduated at the latter institution first in his class. He is a 
lawyer and banker, having practiced law at Woodstock, Va., since 1878. 
He is president of the Shenandoaii National Bank, of the Shenandoah Val- 
ley Loan & Trust Co. and four other banks, besides being a director in 
others. He was a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee 
from 1900 to 1904. He was judge of the coimty court of Shenandoah 
County from 1886 to 1898. He is president of the board of trustees for the 
Randolpli-Macon system of Schools and Colleges. 

John Fi.esher Newsom, Indiana, '91, received his A. M. from Stan- 
ford in 1892. He afterwards took a post graduate course at Stanford 
from 1899 to 1901 and received the degree of Ph. D. in 1901. He made a 
specialty of geology and was attached to the geological survey of Ar- 
kansas from 1891 to 1893. He was an instructor and assistant professor 
of Geology at the L^niversity of Indiana from 1895 to 1898. He then in 
1901 accepted an assistant professorship at Stanford and was professor of 
Mining there until 1909. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of Amer- 
ica and of the Geological Society of London and a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of 
America. He is the autlior of ''Syllabus of Lectures on Economic Geology." 
He is now engaged in private practice. He resides at Palo Alto, Cal. 

Edwix Bryant Nichols, Wesleyan, '91, attended the University of 
Leipzig from 1894. to 189.5 and 1897 to 1898. He was professor of Modern 
Languages in the University of Maine from 1895 to 1897 and 1898 to 1900. 
He received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1901. Since 1902 he has 
been professor of Romance I^anguages at Kenyon College. He resides at 
Gambier, Ohio. <l> B K. 

*WiLLiAM Xaviek NiisTDE, Weslcyau, '5.5, taught school for a year or two 
after his graduation and then entered the ministry of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. He was professor of Practical Theology at tlie Garret Biblical 
Institute from 1873 to 1876 and its president from 1879 to 1881. In 1884 
he was elected a bishop of the church, a position which lie held until his 
death, which occurred in 1901. He received the degree of D. D. from Wes- 
leyan in 1874 and LI,. D. in 1884. He was an lionorary member of Phi 
Kappa Psi. 4> B K. 

Fraxcis Eugexe Nipher, Iowa, '70, since 1874 has been professor of 
Physics at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the author of a "Theory 



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of Magnetic Measurements," "Electricity and Magnetism," and an "Intro- 
duction to Graphical Algebra." He is noted as an investigator of physical 
phenomena and has made many researches and inventions of merit in that 
field of work. He is a contributor to many scientific journals and a mem- 
ber of a large number of learned societies, including the Physical Society 
of France, American Philosophical Society and The Academy of Science of 
St. Louis, and was president of the latter institution for five years. He is 
also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
He resides in St. Louis. He received the degree of LL. D. from Washing- 
ton University in ]875. 2 3. 

*JoHN WiLLOCK Noble, Miami, '50, was a native of Ohio, born at Lan- 
caster in 1832. After leaving Miami he entered Yale College and gradu- 
ated in 1851, and two .years later he graduated from the Cincinnati Law 
School and was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, where he began 
practice. In 1855 he went to St. Louis, where he spent practically all the 
rest of his life, excepting for the Civil war period, while he was in the 
Union army. He served throughout the war with the 3rd Iowa Cavalry, 
retiring as its colonel, with a brevet of brigadier-general awarded by 
Congress for bravery in the field. After the war he resumed practice in 
St. Louis. As United States attorney during the period between 1867 and 
1870, General Noble prosecuted the whiskey and tobacco frauds. President 
Grant ofPered him a solicitor generalship, but he declined it. He was sec- 
retary of the interior from 1889 to 1893. After retiring from the cabinet 
he practiced law in St. Louis. It was during his incumbency of thfe 
ofPice of secretary of the interior that the forest reservation policy was 
originated under the act of March 3, 1891. The great Sierra Reserve was 
one of the first proclaimed, thanks to General Noble's initiative. So vast 
was this reservation that many timid persons criticised the secretary of the 
interior for going too far. Fortunately, this did not deter him from 
stretching his authority a trifle in order to preserve the banks of that 
greatest of our scenic wonders, the Arizona Grand Canon of the Colorado. 
Thanks to the Sierra Reserve, California has had the use of the water 
resources needed for the irrigation of the San Joaquin Valley. He received 
the degree of LL. D. from Miami in 1890 and from Yale in 1892. He died 
at St. Louis March 22, 1912. 

EvERMoxT Hope Norton, Virginia, '95, was a stock broker engaged in 
business in New York City for a number of years. He is now president 
of the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Company of Ecuador. His home is in 
New York City. 



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Wii.i.iAjr Behxauu Nohton, Northwestern, '80, jfradiuited at the Gar- 
rett Biblical Institute in 1882 and became a Methodist Episcopal clergy- 
man. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Syracuse in 1896. He is 
editor of the department, "The News of the Religiovis World," in the Chi- 
cago Daily Tribune and editor of tlie Methoditit Ejtixcopnl Advocate. He 
is author of "Chicago as a Metiiodist and Conmiercial Centre," "History 
of tlie Cliicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions," 
and tiie "History of the Chicago Methodist Social Union," and also of two 
patriotic poems, viz., "He Wears the Button" and "My Father Was a 
Soldier," He resides at Evanston, 111. <P B K. 

*Cybus Nttt, DePauw, was an honorary member admitted in 1848 
while he was a professor at DePauw. He had shown a great interest in 
the members and with Professor I.arrabee was admitted to provide fac- 
ulty members to satisfy the college authorities. He graduated at Alle- 
gheny College in 1836. In 1837 and 1838 he was principal of tiie pre- 
paratory department of DePauw. From 1839 to 1849 he was professor of 
Latin and Greek; from 1842 to 1848 of Greek and Hebrew and of Greek 
alone until 1849. He became president of Ft. Wayne College and of 
Whitewater College, but in 1857 returned to DePauw to become its act- 
ing president and professor of Mathematics. In 1860 he became presi- 
dent of the University of Indiana and was president at the time of his 
death, wliich took place i\ug. 24, 1875. He received the degree of D. D. 
from Allegheny in 1859 and I.L. D. from Missouri and Hanover in 1873. 
He was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. 




WILLIAM BERNARD NoKToN 
Northwestirn Ml 




BKNJAMIN B. ODELL, JR. 

Bethany '77 



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15KNJAMIN Bakkki! Odkii,, Jii., Bethany, '77, attended Columbia Uni- 
versity from 1873 to 1875 and immediately engaged in industrial enter- 
prises at Newburgh, N. Y., where he has resided. From 1884 to 1896 he 
was a member of the Republican State Committee, from 1898 to 1900 
chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee and from 1895 to 
1899 a member of Congress. He was governor of New York from 1901 to 
IJ.'OS. He resides at Newburgh, N. Y. When a student at Columbia lie 
was given permission to and became a member of Psi Upsilon. 

Senxosimci Ogata, DePauw, '85, became a Methodist Episcojial clergy- 
man in Japan and a member of the board of managers of the Anglo-Jap- 
anese College at Tokio. When the Japanese Methodist church was formed 
in 1908 he was made a presiding elder of the Conference. He was president 
of the y\nglo-Japanese College at Aoyama, Tokyo, from 1907 to 1913, and is 
now president of the Board of Missions of the Japanese Methodist church. 
He resides at Tokio. He received the degree of D. D. from DePauw in 
1905. 

Frederick ArsTix Oc.g, DePaiiw, '99, was a teaching Fellow in History 
at Harvard from 1904 to 1907. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Harvard in 1908. He is associate professor of History in Simmons College, 
Boston. He is the author of "The Opening of the Mississippi," "Fordham's 
Travels in America," "A Source Book of Mediaeval History," "Social Pro- 
gress in Contemporary Europe," "The Governments of Europe," and ''Dan- 
iel Webster." He is a member of the American Historical Association, the 
American Political Science Association, the American Economic Associa- 
tion and the Academy of Political Science of the city of New York. 4> B K. 

Wai.tek Collins O'Kane, Ohio State, '97, for a number of years was 
professor of economic entomology and entomologist to the experiment sta- 
tion of the State of Vermont. He has recently become professor of 
Zoology and Entomology at Ohio State University and resides at Colum- 
bus, Ohio. He is the author of a work entitled, "Injurious Insects." 

*Sylvaxits Thompsox Oldham, Cumberland, '61, enlisted in the Con- 
federate army upon his graduation and served throughout the war, be- 
coming major of the 20th Mississippi Infantry. He became a lawyer and 

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practiced at Kosciusko, Miss. From 1875 to 1879 he was a member of the 
Mississippi Senate. He was the author of histories of Free Masonry and 
Odd Fellowship. He died in 1911. 

Everett Ward Olmsted, Knox, '91, Cornell, '91, received his Ph. D. 
degree from Cornell in. 1897. He pursued post-graduate studies at the 
Sorbonne, College de France, Ecole des Chartes, Paris and at Cornell. He 
was master of French at the Cascadilla School at Ithaca, N. Y., from 1891 
to 1893, and instructor of French at Cornell from 1893 to 1898. He was as- 
sistant professor of Romance Languages at Cornell from 1898 to 1909, and 
has been professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Cornell since 
1909. He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, 
and was its vice president in 1909-10. He is the author of "The Sonnet in 
French Literature," and "The Development of the French Sonnet Form," 
"A Spanish Grammar" (with Arthur Gordon), and of various magazine 
articles and poems. He has edited "A Selection from the Comedies of 
Marivaux," "Le Malade Imaginaire,'' by Moliere, "Legends, Tales, and 
Poems," by Gustav A. Becquer. He has recently accepted the professor- 
ship of Romance I>anguages at the University of Minnesota and will as- 
sume his duties there in the fall of 1914. 

Warrek Olney, Jr., California, '91, graduated at Harvard in 1892 
and in law from the Hastings College of Law in 1894, and has practiced 
law in California ever since. Since 1907 he has been a director and gen- 
eral attorney for the Western Pacific Railway Co. He resides at Berk- 
eley, Cal. #BK. 

*GusTAVus John Orr, Emory, '44, was for many years the leading au- 
thority in the South upon educational matters and from 1872 to 1887 was 
state school commissioner of Georgia. After graduation he became a pro- 
fessor in the Wesleyan Female College at Macon, Ga., and shortly after- 
wards president of the Southern Female College at Covington, Ga. In 1859 
he was a member of the Commission to determine the boundary line be- 
tween Georgia and Florida. . For many years he was a professor at Emory 
college. He was president of the National Educational Association in 1882. 
He died at Oxford, Ga., December 13, 1887. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from Vanderbilt University. 

Arraham Coles Osborx, Colgate, '55, graduated at the Hamilton, X. 
Y., Theological Seminary in 1858 and entered the ministry of the Baptist 
church. He has been pastor of the following churches: Jefferson Street, 
Louisville, Ky., 1858-62; Fourth Church, St. Louis, 1862-9; Tabernacle, 



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Brooklyn, N. Y., 1869-73; South Church, New York City, 1873-7; First 
Church, North Adams, Mass., 1877-84, and First Church, Albion, N. Y., 
1884-95. From 1895 to 1911 he was president of Benedict College, S. C. 
He is now retired and resides at North Adams, Mass. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Shurtleff in 1867 and LL. D. from Colgate in 1895. 
He is the author of "The Mormon Doctrine of God and Heaven," and 
"The Religious Life of the Baptist in the Sixteenth Century." * B K. 

*Frederick Curry Ostraxder, Wesleyan, '93, was assistant secretary 
to the faculty at Wesleyan for one year. He then attended for one year 
in succession the Universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Geneva, receiving a 
Ph. D. from the latter University in 1897. From 1898 to 1906, he was pro- 
fessor of Romance Languages at Western Reserve and from 1906 to 1913 
of Romance Languages at the University of Texas. He died in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., in 1913. 4> B K. 

John Overmyer, DePauw, '67, is a lawyer and banker at North Ver- 
non, Ind. He was a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1868-70 and 
1876-80 and speaker at the session of 1877. He was secretary of the Indi- 
ana senate in 1875. He is president of the Jennings County Bank. He 
was vice president of the Fraternity convention of 1867. 

Hexry Ali-en Overstreet, California, "99, attended Oxford University 
and received the degree of B. Sc. in 1901. From 1901 to 1911 he was asso- 
ciate professor of Philosophy at the University of California, and since 
1911 has been professor of Philosophy in the College of the City of New 
York. He is the autlior of "Tiie Basic Principle of Truth Evaluation," 
"The Dialetic of Plotinus," "The Ground of the Time Illusion," etc. He 
resides in New York City. ^ B K. 

*JosHUA Thomas Owen, Washington & JeflFerson, '45, studied law after 
his graduation and began to practice in 1848 at Philadelphia. He was 
elected a member of the city council in 1856 and of the State Legislature 
of Pennsylvania in 1857. When the Civil War broke out he organized the 
24th Pennsylvania Regiment and became its colonel. He subsequently be- 
came colonel of the 69th Pennsylvania and tlien was made brigadier gen- 
eral commanding the 2d Brigade of the 2d Division and 2d Corps of the 
Army of the Potamac. After the war was over he became recorder of 
deeds of Philadelphia, a position which he retained for many years. He 
saw the need of a daily court calendar and register of legal happenings 
and was the first to satisfy it. He founded the Daih/ Lecfal News of Phil- 
adelphia and the Daily Law Recjister of New York City. He died at Chest- 
nut Hill, Pa., Nov. 7, 1887. 



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*RiCHAKD OwEx, DePauw, '60, was an honorary member of the De- 
Pauw chapter. He was educated in Switzerland. He received the degree 
of M. D. from the University of Nashville in 1857 and LL. D. from Wa- 
bash in 1871. During the war with Mexico he was captain in the 16th 
United States Infantry. He was a geologist of note. He was professor of 
Geology at the Western Military Institute, a department of the University 
of Nashville, from 1849 to 1858. He was state geologist of Indiana from 
1858 to 1861. In 1861 he entered the Union army as lieutenant-colonel of 
the 15th Indiana- Volunteers and in 1864 became colonel of the 6th Indiana 
Volunteers. From 1864 to 1879 he was a professor of Geology in the Uni- 
versity of Indiana. He wrote much about geology and was an extensive 
traveler and correspondent for the New York Tribune. He died at New 
Harmony, Ind., in 1890. 

William Bishop Owex, Denison, '87, studied at the Universities of 
Berlin and Halle. He was associate professor of Education at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago from 1905 to 1909. He was principal and dean of the 
University of Chicago secondary schools from 1901 to 1909. He has been 
principal of the Chicago Normal School since 1909, and editor of the Edu- 
cotional Bi-Monthly since 1909. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
the University of Chicago in 1901. He resides in Chicago. <!• B K. 



Charles Lathkop Pack, Williams, is a forestry expert. He studied 
ii. Germanj' and spent several years in exploration of wild lands in various 
parts of North America. He was for many years one of the largest owners 
and manufacturers of lumber in the United States. He is a director of the 
iVmerican Forestry Association, and of the American Conservation Asso- 
ciation, a member of the executive committee of the National Conservation 
Association and Avas president of the National Conservation Congress of 
1913. He was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the Conser- 
vation Commission and at his request attended the White House Conference 
of Governors in 1897 as an expert. He is a director of the Seaboard 
National Bank, New York; was one of tlie founders of the Cleveland 
Trust Co., and is a trustee of Western Reserve University. He was while 
a resident of Cleveland president of its Chamber of Commerce. He re- 
sides at Lakewood, N. J. 

*Hai,bert Elkazar Paine, Western Reserve, '45, graduated with first 
honors. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He was a 
tutor at Western Reserve in 1847-48. In 1851 he moved to Milwaukee and 
practiced law. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union army, becoming a quarter- 
master in the 2d Wisconsin ^'olunteers. He was s]ieedily made colonel of 
the 4th Wisconsin ^'olunteers and a year later a brigadier-general of the 3d 
Division of 19th Cor])s. In 18(55 he was made a major general, commanding 
a division. From 18(>5 to 1871 lie was a member of Congress. In 1878 he 
was appointed Commissioner of Patents and served for three years. He 
then settled in Washington and practiced jiatent law. He died there in 1905. 
He was the author of a treatise on "Elections." He received the degree of 
LL. D. from AVestern Reserve in 1875. <!' B K. 

*jA3rEs Ei.MORE Palmer, Emory, '48, was appointed principal of the 
preparatory dejiartment of Emory College inunediately upon his graduation. 
In 1849 he became professor of Natural Science in the Wesleyan Female 
College and in 1858 professor of Latin and treasurer of Emory College, 
serving until his death, which took place December 13, 1861. 

*IyEwis Daxiel Palmier, Emory, '55, died of apo}>lexy at his home in 
Nashville, Tenn., on March 22, 1911. He was born near Augusta, Ga., 
July 27, 1834, and was graduated from Emory College in 1855, taking first 

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honor. He was a trustee of the college from 1874 to the thne of his death. 
During the Civil war he was the commissioner of the state of Georgia for 
the manufacture of salt at Saltville, Va., to supply the Georgia people and 
the state troops in the Confederate army. After the war he became a fur- 
niture manufacturer at Dalton, Ga. For twelve years he was business man- 
ager of the Southern Methodist Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn. 

OuviLLE Augustus Park, Vanderbilt, '92, graduated from the law school 
of the University of Georgia and is practicing at Macon, Ga. He is profes- 
sor of Law and secretary of the faculty of the Mercer University School of 
Law and is secretary of the Georgia Bar Association. 

Charles Breckenridge Parkhill, Randolph-Macon, '78, Virginia, '82, 
was admitted to the bar in 1882, and practiced law at Pensacola, Fla. He 
was a member of the Florida Senate from 1888 to 1890, solicitor of the 
Criminal Court of Record for Escambia County from 1897 to 1903, circuit 
judge of the 1st Judicial Circuit from 1903 to 1905, and judge of the Su- 
preme court of Florida from 1905 to 1912, when he resigned to resume the 
practice of law in Tampa, Fla. He is now city attorney of that city. He 
was grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Florida in 1890. He was 
captain and major in the State Troop of Florida. 

CuLLEN Warner Parmelee, Rutgers, '96, is professor of Ceramics at 
Rutgers. He has been president of the New Jersey Microscopical Society 
and trustee and vice president of the American Ceramic Society. He re- 
sides at New Brunswick, N. J. $ B K. 

William David Parr, DePauw, '75, graduated in theology at Drew 
Theological Seminary in 1878 and became a Methodist clergyman. For a 
number of years he has been secretary of the Board of Church Extension 
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Clark University in 1881 and S. T. D. from DePauw University in 1898. He 
resides at Kokomo, Ind. 

Robert Lewis Parrish, Virginia, '99, was admitted to the Virginia bar 
in 1899 and has since practiced at Covington, Va. He is counsel for the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. He is president of the Covington 
National Bank, of the Covington Grocery Company, and the Oriskany 
Ore & Iron Company. He is a member of many associations and clubs. 

*Charles Parrott, Ohio Wesleyan, '56, after his graduation attended 
the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1860. For a 
time he was a school teacher. From 1871 to 1873 he was a member of the 



JAMES HORACE PATTEN 245 

Board of Education at Dayton, Ohio. He then engaged in the business of 
manufacturing plows at Dayton. From 1873 to 1879 he was the general 
agent of lessees of public works in Ohio, and from 1888 to 1899 was a 
member of the State Board of Charity. From 1894 to 1901 he was vice 
president of the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking Valley Railway. He 
died at Columbus, Ohio, in 1901. 

*Theopb(ilus Parvix, Indiana, '47, graduated from the medical de- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1852 and became a physi- 
cian. From 1864 to 1869 he was professor in the medical college of Ohio; 
from 1869 to 1872 in the Louisville Medical College, and from 1872 to 1881 
in the Indiana Medical College. From 1883 to 1898 he was professor of 
obstetrics and the diseases of women and children at the Jefferson College 
in Philadelphia. He was president of the State Medical Society of Indi- 
ana while he resided in Indiana. He was the founder and president of the 
association of American Medical Journalists. He was president of the 
American Medical Association in 1879 and at times was president of the 
American Academy of Medicine and the American Gynaecological Society. 
He was an honorary fellow of the obstetric societies of Edinburgh, Scot- 
land, and Berlin, Germany. He was a voluminous writer for the profes- 
sional press. He was the editor of the Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, the 
Western Journal of Medicine, and the American Pracfifioner at different 
times from 1866 to 1883. He was the author of "The Life and Career of 
Andrew Wylie," "The Science and art of Obstetrics," "Lectures on 
Obstetric Nursing," and very many addresses and lectures on medical 
subjects. He died at Philadelphia in 1898. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from Hanover in 1863. He was the orator before the Fraternity 
Convention of 1875. 

William Robinson Pattangali., Maine, '84, after his graduation, stud- 
ied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the Maine Leg- 
islature in 1897-98, 1900-01, 1909-10 and 1911. He was mayor of Waterville 
from 1911 to 1913 and attorney general of Maine during 1911 and 1912. He 
was managing editor of the Waterville Morning Sentinel from 1906 to 1909. 
Hf is a trustee of the University of Maine and resides in Waterville. 

James Horace Patten, Kansas, '96, took his A. B. and A. M. de- 
grees at Harvard in 1896 and 1897, respectively, and also graduated from 
the Harvard Law School in 1905. He is a lawyer and resides in Boston. 
He is counsel of the Farmers" Education and Co-operative Union of 
America, secretary of the Immigration Restriction I>eague and Chairman of 



246 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

the National Legislative Committee of the American Purity Federation. 
* B K. 

George Thomas Patterson, Nebraska, '92, is a major in the United 
States Coast Artillery. His address is care of the War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

James Kennedy Patterson, Hanover, "56, was principal of Greenville, 
Ky., Academy, 1856-59, and from 1859 to 1861 professor of Latin and 
Greek at Stewart College. From 1861 to 1861. he was principal of the 
Transylvania high school at Lexington, Ky., and from 1866 to 1869 pro- 
fessor of Latin at Morrison College and of History and Metaphysics at the 
Agricultural College of Kentucky. In 1869 he became president of the 
State College of Kentucky, which later became the University of Kentucky, 
retiring in 1910, thus serving as a college president for forty-one years, the 
longest term of that kind in America. In 1910 he became professor Emeri- 
tus. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Hanover in 1875 and LL. D. 
from Lafayette in 1896, and from Vermont in 1911. He is a Fellow of the 
Royal Historical Society of Great Britain and of the Society of Antiquaries 
of Scotland. He was a delegate to the International Geographical Con- 
gress at Paris in 1875, and to the meetings of the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science in 1875 and 1890. He was president of the 
Association of State Colleges in 1903. He is a member of the American 
Historical Association, the American Academy of Social and Political 
Science and honorary member of the National Association of State Uni- 
versities, and is a trustee of Hanover College. He resides at Lexington, 
Ky. 

.ToiiN Henry Patterson, Miami, '67, left college without graduating 
and took his A. B. degree at Dartmouth in 1867. He tlien entered the coal 
business, both in mining and selling. In 1882 he became interested in the 
manufacture of cash registers and in 1885 he organized the National Cash 
Register Company at Dayton, Ohio, and became its president. He has 
written and lectured nnich on the relation of employer and employee. In 
1900 he received the decoration of the Legion of Honor from France. He 
resides at Dayton, Ohio. 

*JoiTN Mii,TON Pattison, Ohio Wesleyan, '69, after bis graduation 
studied law and was admitted to the bar at Cincinnati. From 1876 to 1884 
he was editor of the Cincinnati Law Record and for some years later of 
the American Law Reporter. He made a specialty of insurance law and 
from 1881 to 1891 was vice president and general manager of the Union 
Central Life Insurance Company and from 1891 to 1906 was president of 




JAMES K. PATTERSON 
Hanover '56 




JOHN H. PATTERSON 
Miami '67 



GEORGE HERNDON PEGRAM 247 

that company. He took a great interest in public affair and was a mem- 
ber of the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature from 1873 to 1875 and of 
the Upper House from 1888 to 1890. From 1890 to 1902 he was a member 
of Congress. In 1905 he was elected governor of Ohio and served until his 
death, which occurred at Cincinnati June 18th, 1906. During the war he 
served as a private in the 153rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Am ASA Copp Paxil, Dartmouth, '78, graduated from the law depart- 
ment of George Washington University in 1880 and since 1884 has been 
engaged in practice as a patent lawyer at Minneapolis. He is the author 
of a well known work on the "Law of Trademarks." 

Sumner Bass Peakmaix, Harvard, '83, graduated with the degree of 
A. B. He lias been a stock liroker since his graduation and is a member 
ol tlic firm of Pearmain & Brooks of Boston. He is a member of the 
Boston and New York stock exchanges. 

Fkancis Bail Pearson, Wooster, '85, is high school visitor at Ohio 
State University. He is the author of "First Steps in Caesar," "Ohio His- 
tory Sketclies," and the "Evaluation of the Teacher." He is managing edi- 
tor of the Ohio Educational Monthly. He "was college secretary of the fra- 
ternity ill 1884-85. He resides at Columbus, Ohio. 

.Toirx Weid Peck, Miami, '95, did not graduate but went to Harvard 
wliere iie earned his A. B. in 1896. He then took his LL. B. degree in 
1898 at tiie Cincinnati Law School. He has been a lawyer at Cincinnati 
since 1898. He is a member of the firm of Peck, Sliaffer & Peck, who arc 
the attorneys for many large corporations. He was a member of city coun- 
cil of Cincinnati in 1912 and 1913. He declined tlie appointment of judge 
ot tlie superior court of Ohio in 1912. 

* Willi A 31 Ware Peck, Harvard, '44, was a graduate of the Univers- 
ity of Vermont in the class of '41. He practiced law at Barre and Bur- 
lington, Vermont, but moved to Evanston, Wj^oming, in the early seven- 
ties. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming from 1877 to 
1881. He died at Evanston, Wyo., in 1895. 

Maxsfiei.i) Theodore Peed, Randolph-Macon, '78, Johns Hopkins, '83, 
did graduate work at Johns Hopkins from 1887 to 1889 and since the 
latter date has been professor of Pure Mathematics and Astronomy at 
Emory College, Oxford, Ga. 

George Herndox Pegram, Washington, '77, from 1880 to 1886 was chief 
engineer of the Edge Moor Iron Co. of Delaware; from 1889 to 1893 was 



248 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

consulting engineer of tlie Missouri Pacific R. R.; from 1893 to 1898 was 
chief engineer of the Union Pacific R. R.; from 1898 to 1903 was chief 
engineer of the Manhattan Elevated R. R. in New York City, and since 
1903 has been chief engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Commission 
and the Rapid Transit Construction Co. He was the designer of the ele- 
vated railroad in Kansas City and of the Union station in St. liOuis. He 
also designed and built the Arkansas River bridge at Ft. Smith, Ark. He 
received the degree of M. A. from Washington in 190-5. 

William Perry Pexce, DePauw, '92, graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1894 and in 1901 was an honor graduate of 
the United States Artillery School. He is a major in the Coast Artillery 
in the United States army. 

*Ai,EXANDER Swift Pendleton^ Washington & IjCC, '57, graduated with 
first honor. From 1857 to 1859 he was acting professor of Latin at Wash- 
ington and Lee. He attended the University of Virginia in 18-59 and 1860. 
In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as a lieutenant and was pro- 
moted to be captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, adjutant-general 
and chief-of-staflF to General Stonewall Jackson. He was mortally wounded 
at the battle of Fisher's Hill, and died Sept. 23, 1864. 

*JoHN Prextiss Penny, Washington & Jefferson, '43, after gradua- 
tion removed to Georgia, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. 
He was a professor in the Georgia Military Institute from 1847 to 1851. 
Returning to Pennsylvania, he settled at McKeesport, near Pittsburg. In 
1858 he was elected to the state senate of Pennsylvania and served for 
seven years being speaker in 1864 and 1865. He died at Pittsburg, Jan. 3, 
1873. 

Boies Penrose, Harvard, '81, was admitted to tlie bar at Philadelphia 
in 1883. From 1884 to 1886 he was a member of the Pennsylvania I^egis- 
lature and from 1887 to 1895 of the Pennsylvania Senate, and its president 
in 1889 to 1891. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1897 and 
has since been a member. He was chairman of the Republican State Com- 
mittee 1903-05, and a member of the Republican National Committee since 
1905. He is the author of a "History of the City Government of Philadel- 
phia." He resides in Philadelphia. 

Charles Bixgiiaim Penrose, Harvard, '81, studied medicine at the LTni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1884. In 1885 and 1886 he was one 
of the resident physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1887 he became 
surgeon to the Gynecean Hospital of Philadelphia and in 1890 to the Ger- 




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HIRAM MILLS PERKIXS 249 

man Hospital of the saine city. From 1893 to 1899 he was professor of 
Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Text 
Book of Diseases of Women," wiiich has gone through many editions. He 
has contributed to many periodicals on scientific, technical and professional 
subjects and is a member of many learned societies. He received the de- 
gree of Ph. D. from Harvard in 1884 and LL. D. from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1909. He resides in Philadelphia. * B K. 

Richard Alexaxdeu Fn.i.EKTox Penhose, Harvard, '84, received the 
degree of Ph. D. in 1886, and made geology his life worlv. In 1888 he made 
a survey of Eastern Texas for the Texas Geological Survey, in 1889 he was 
appointed by the Geological Survey of Arkansas to make a report on the 
iron and manganese ores of that state. Since 1892 he has been professor 
of Economic Geology at the University of Chicago and since 1893 lecturer 
on that subject at Stanford University. In 1894 he was appointed geolo- 
gist by the United States Geological survey to examine the gold districts 
of Cripple Creek. He has contriliuted mucli to professional and scientific 
journals and is the author of a number of booivS, "The Nature and Origin 
of deposits of Phosphate of I>ime," "Geology of the Gulf Territory of Tex- 
as," "Manganese, its Uses, Ores and Deposits," "The Iron deposits of Ar- 
kansas," etc. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science and of the Geological Society of America. He is a member 
of many other learned societies, and director in a number of corporations. 
He resides in Philadelphia. 

George Hexry Perkixs, Knox, '67, graduated from Yale in 186T. He 
also received the degree of Ph. D. from Yale in 1869. Since 1869 he has 
been professor of Natural Science at the University of Vermont and since 
1898 dean of the College of Arts and Science. From 1880 to 1897 he was 
State Entomologist of Vermont, and since 1897 has l)een State Geologist. 
He is the author of "A Flora of Vermont," "A Report on Injurious In- 
sects," "A Report on the Marble, Slate and Granite Industries of Ver- 
mont," and other official reports. He has also been a contributor to the 
Encyclopedia Britannica and otiier encyclopedia and to many scientific 
journals. He is a well known geological expert and lecturer. He resides 
at Burlington, Vt. 

Hiram Mh.t.s Perkixs, Ohio Weslevan, '.57, after his a:radiKiti-.n be- 
came tutor of natural sciences at Ohio Weslevan and in 186-5 adjunct pro- 
fessor of Mathematics. From 1867 to 1907 he was Parrott nmfessor of 
Mathematics «nd Astronomy at Ohio Weslevan Universitv nnd since 1907 
has been an Emeritus professor. He received the degree of LU. D. in 1903. 
He has long been a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. * B K. 



250 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*Lewis Grover Perkins, Centenary, '50, studied medicine in Philadel- 
phia and became a surgeon. During the Civil war he served as a surgeon 
in the Confederate army and was in charge of a number of military hospit- 
als and hospital camps. After the war he practiced medicine at Norwood, 
La. From 1883 to 1886 he was a state senator. From 1886 to 1903 he was 
superintendent of the Louisana State Insane Asylum. He died in 1907. 

Oscar Butler Perry, Indiana, '97, graduated with the degree of A. B. 
He then studied at the School of Mines at Columbia where he received his 
E. M. in 1900. He is a mining engineer. He was engineer from 1904 to 
1906 and since then general manager of the placer mining properties of 
the Guggenheim Exploration Company. His office is in New York City. 
TBn. 

*Delos Porter Phelps, Monmouth, '65, was a lawyer, making a spec- 
ialty of railway law. From 1880 to 1882 he was general manager and 
solicitor for the Peoria-Farmington Railway. In 1882 he became general 
manager of the Central Iowa Railway in Illinois. From 1884 to 1892 he 
M^as general manager of the Peoria Terminal Railway Company and from 
1886 to 1894 was vice president and general manager of the Weir Plow 
Co. He was chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Illinois from 
1889 to 1894 and was once nominated for Congress and several times re- 
ceived the Democratic vote in the Illinois Legislature for United States 
Senator. He died June 26, 1914, at Chicago, 111. 

*Thomas Edward Pickett. Centre, '60, graduated from the medical de- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1865, and became a practic- 
ing physician at Maysville, Ky. During the war he was a volunteer sur- 
geon in the United States army. In 1867 he became city physician of 
Maysville and from 1872 to 1880 was one of the medical examiners of the 
state of Kentucky. From 1884 to 1889 he was a member of the United 
States Board of Examining surgeons and president of the society of 
United States Surgical Examiners. He was noted as an ethnologist and 
archeologist and wrote much in these departments of knowledge. He was 
the author of "Tepeu," "The Hypnothetical Migration of Morbus Ameri- 
canus," "The Suppression of Empiricism by Statutory Law," "The Testi- 
mony of the Mounds," etc. He died at Maysville, Ky., September 3, 1913. 

*Bradford KixNEY PiERCE, Wcslcyan, '41, studied theology and entered 
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1842. From 1847 to 1850 
he was editor of the Sunday School Messenger and Sunday School Teacher. 
He was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts from 1855 to 1856 and 
was superintendent and chaplain of the Massachusetts Industrial School for 




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Girls from 1856 to 1860, and chaplain of the House of Refuge at Randall's 
Island, New York, from 1863 to 1872. He was editor of Zion's Herald from 
1872 until his death, which occurred in 1889. He received the degree of 
D. D. from Wesleyan in 1868 and LL. D. in 1872. <l> B K. 

*George Edjiond Pierce, Western Reserve, was an honorary member 
and at the time of his initiation was president of the college. He graduated 
from Yale in 1816, from the Andover Seminary in 1821 and received the 
degree of D. D. from Middlebury in 1838. He entered the ministry of the 
Congregational church, but was not active in it. From 1834 to 1855 he was 
president of Western Reserve College. He died at Hudson, Ohio, in 1871. 

Harry Raymond Pierce, Syracuse, '99, is engaged in the training of 
public speakers. He is coach and dramatic critic for the Cort Lyceum 
Bureau at Cleveland, Ohio, and director of the department of public speak- 
ing at Ohio University. He resides at Athens, Ohio. 

*JoHX Pierce, Western Reserve, '50, became a banker and moved to 
Colorado. From 1862 to 1866 he was surveyor-general of Colorado. He was 
president of the D. & B. F. R. R. from 1872 to 1895 and of the Denver 
Pacific from 1869-72 and of the Denver Safe Deposit Bank from 1874 to 
1901. He died at Denver in 1901. 

* Robert Bbuce Frazier Pierce, Wabash, '66, served in the Union 
army in 1865 as second lieutenant of Company H, 135th Regiment of Indi- 
ana Volunteers. He graduated from Wabash College in 1866 and studied 
law at Shelbyville, Ind., and entered upon its practice at Crawfords- 
ville in 1867. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the 8th Judicial 
Circuit i^ 1868, and re-elected in 1870 and 1872, serving until 1874. He 
was elected to the 47th Congress as a Republican and served from 1881 
to 1883. In 1888 he was appointed receiver of tlie Toledo, St. Louis & Kan- 
sas City railway, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1898, he 
was general manager of the I. D. & W. railway. 

*Daniel Jarvis Pinckney, Wesleyan, '41, was a teacher in the Genesee 
Seminary from 1841 to 1842 and principal of the Rock River Seminary from 
1842 to 1854. He then became a farmer. He was a member of the Illinois 
Constitution Conventions of 1847 and 1870, of the Illinois Legislature from 
1847 to 1853, and the Illinois Senate from 1867 to 1870. He died at Mount 
Morris, 111., in 1883. 'I' B K. 

Alvin Meade Piper, Iowa Wesleyan, '02, is secretary of the Peoples 
Popular Monthly Company and editor of the Peoples' Popular Monthly at 
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252 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Philip Wilsox Pitcher, Rutgers, '82, graduated from the New Bruns- 
wick Theological Seminary in 1885 and entered the ministry of the Dutch 
Reformed Church and engaged in missionary work at Amoy, China. He 
was principal of a boy's academy from 1887 to 1913 and since then has 
been president of Talmage College at Amoy. He is the author of an "Epi- 
tome of Chinese History" (written in Chinese), "Elements of Education" 
(also written in Chinese) and other works written in English. He resides at 
Amoy. 

*RoBERT Carter Pitjiax, Wesleyan, '45, was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature from 1858 to 1859 and of the Massachusetts Senate 
from 1864 to 1866, and from 1868 to 1870, and was its president in 1869. He 
was a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1890. He 
received the degree of LL. D. from Wesleyan in 1869. He died at New- 
ton, Mass., March 6, 1891. * B K. 

*RoBERT William Pitmak, Trinity, '56, was an honorary member of 
the local society which became the Trinity University Chapter of the 
fraternity and was admitted to the fraternity in consequence of that fact. 
He graduated from the University at Nashville in 1856. He served from 
1863 to 1865 in the Confederate army as colonel of the 28th Tennessee 
Infantry, and during the last year of the war was inspector general in 
Forest's Cavalry. From 1877 to 1900 he was professor of Natural Sci- 
ence and vice president of Trinity University. He died at Denton, Texas, 
in 1900. 

Alexander Whitk Pitzer, Hampden-Sidney, '54, Centre, '54, is a 
Presbyterian clergyman residing at Salem, Va. He left Centre College 
before graduation and graduated at Hampden-Sidney as valedictorian of 
his class. He studied theology at the Theological Seminary of the Presby- 
terian church at Hampden-Sidney. He was pastor at Leavenworth, 
Kansas, from 1857 to 1861, at Sparta, Ga., from 1862 to 1865, at Liberty, 
Va., from 1865 to 1867, and at Washington, D. C, from 1867 to 1909. 
From 1868 to 1909 he was profesor of Biblical Theology at Howard Uni- 
versity. Since 1868 he has been one of the trustees of Hampden-Sidney 
College. He was a delegate to the World's Missionary Conference held at 
'London in 1888. He has been a frequent contributor to the Southern 
rresbyterian Review, The Christian Observer, and other church journals, 
and is the author of "Ecce Deus Homo," ''The New Life," "Christ the 
Teacher of Men," "Confidence in Christ," "Manifold Ministry of the Holy 
Spirit." He received the degree of D. D. from Arkansas College in 1876. 



PRESTOS POM), JR. 253 

Philetus Tiieodohe Pockmax, Rutgers, '75, graduated from the New 
Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1878, was for twenty-five years pastor 
of the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, N. J., and is now pastor 
of the First Presbyterian churcli at Alden, New York. For fifteen years he 
was stated clerk of the Board of Superintendents of the New Brunswick 
Theological Seminary. From 1911 to 1912 he was president of the general 
synod of the Reformed Churcli in America. He received the degree of 
I). D. from Rutgers in 1894. <I> B K. 

Edward Bagby Pomard, Richmond, '81, graduated from the Southern 
Baptist Theological Seminary in 1890 and entered the ministry of the Bap- 
tist church. He attended Yale College from 1890 to 1893 and received 
the degree of Pli. D. therefrom in 1893. He also studied at the University 
of Berlin. From 1896 to 1902 he was professor of Biblical I>iterature at 
Columbian University. From 1902 to 1906 he was professor of Biblical I>it- 
erature at Georgetown College, KentucT^y, and since 1906 has been professor 
of Homiletics at the Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Richmond College in 1902. He is the au- 
thor of "Paul Judson" and "Semitic and Oriental Women." 

*Henry Moses Pollard, Dartmouth, '.57, was born at Plymouth, Vt., 
June 14, 1836; after graduation he studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in 1859. At the outbreak of the war he entered the Union army and 
rose in rank to be the major of the 8th Regiment of Vermont Volunteers. 
He moved to Chillicothe, Mo., in 1865, and practiced law. He moved to St. 
Louis in 1875 and in 1877 was elected representative from Missouri to the 
45th Congress as a Republican and served until 1879. He died at St. Louis 
Feb. 25, 1904. 

Joiix Gari.axd Pollard, Richmond, '91, graduated in law from the 
Columbian Law School in 1893 and is practicing law at Richmond, Va. He 
was the editor of the Virginia Code of 1904 and The Virginia Law Ref/ister 
in 1904 and 1906. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Conven- 
tion of 1901, and was a presidential elector in 1904. From 1902 to 1907 he 
was chairman of the Virginia Commission on Uniform State L^ws. He de- 
livered lectures at Richmond College. He is the author of "Tlie Panumkey 
Indians of Virginia." He resides at Richmond. He was mayor of Ginter 
Park in 1913 and attorney general of Virginia, 1914. «l> B K. 

*Prestox Poxd, Jr., Centenary, '43, studied law and practiced at Jack- 
son, I>a. He was a member of the lower house of the Louisiana I>egislature 
for'a time. At the outbreak of the Civil war he became colonel of the 16th 



254 BETAS OF ACHIE]'EMENT 

Louisaina Infantry, in the Confederate army and died in 1864 while in the 
service. 

*Alfred Thurston Pope, Indiana, '62, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar at Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the city council of 
Louisville in 1868 and of the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature in 
1869 and 1870, and of the upper house from 1871 to 1875. He was a pres- 
idential elector in 1868. From 1878 to 1884 he was vice chancellor of the 
Louisville Court of Chancery. He was director and for some time presi- 
dent of the Farmers & Drovers' Bank of Louisville. He was the author of 
a book on "Immigration," published in 1870. He died at Louisville in 1891. 
He was the founder of the Psi chapter at Bethany College. 

James Wordex Pope, Indiana, '66, left college before graduation and 
entered the United States Military Academy from which he graduated in 
1868. For the first ten years of his service he was largely occupied in 
campaigning against Indians. In 1875 he was detailed for duty at the 
United States Military Prison and in 1885 was assigned to the command of 
this prison, which command he held until it was discontinued in 1895, at 
which time he organized the United States Penitentiary. In 1898 he was 
chief quartermaster of the expedition to the Philippines where he remained 
until 1900, when he was assigned to duty as chief quartermaster of the De- 
partment of the Colorado. From 1904 to 1910 he was in command of the 
general army depot at Philadelphia. He retired in 1910. 

*AiTDREW Jackso:!^ Poppleton, Michigan, '51, left college before grad- 
uation and moved to Union, from which he received the degree of A. B. 
in 1851. He received the honorary degree of A, M. from Michigan in 1895. 
He studied law and commenced its practice at Omaha, Nebraska. From 
1854 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1858 he was a member of the Nebraska 
Legislature. From 1858 to 1859 he was mayor of Omaha. From 1863 to 
1888 he was general attorney of the Union Pacific Railway Co. He 
was elected United States Senator by the first Constitutional convention 
of Nebraska, but did not take his seat as the state was not then admitted 
to the Union. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of 
Nebraska in 1877. He was the orator before the fraternity convention of 
1878. He died at Omaha, Sept. 24, 1896. 

* Albert Gat.lati^t Porter, DePauw, '45, became a lawyer. In 1851 
and 1852 he was city attorney of Indianapolis. The next year he became 
reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana. From 1859 to 1863 he was a 
member of Congress. From 1878 to 1881 he was first comptroller of the 




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United States treasury; from IHHl to 1885 governor of Indiana; from 1889 
to 1893 United States Minister to Italy. He died in 1897 at Indianapofis. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from DePauw in 1870. He was the 
orator of the Fraternity convention of 1882. 

Gilbert Edwix Poiiti:r, Wisconsin, '81., did not graduate but went to 
the University of Chicago where he obtained his IJ.. B. degree in 1884-. 
He is a member of the law firm of Isiiam, I-incoln & Beak- of Ciiicago, and 
is counsel for the elevated railways of Chicago. 

*WiLLiAiM Combe Post, Stevens, '86, after graduation became a drafts- 
man with the firm of Post & McCord, of which his father was senior 
partner. In 1900 when that firm was merged with the American Bridge 
Company he became contracting agent for that company. In 1904 a new 
com])any was organized called tlie Post & McCord Co. and he became 
its vice president and treasurer. He died at Atlantic City Jan. 5, 1910. 
He was president of tlie Alumni Association of Stevens Institute. 

*Sajhti;f, Henhy Powe, Miami, 'H, did not graduate, but left college 
in 1840, graduated at Augusta College and returned to his home in Win- 
chester, Miss. Wiien tlie war with Mexico broke out he became colonel of 
the 11th Mississippi Infantry. From 18.54 to 18.58 he was a member of the 
State Legislature. At the beginning of the Civil war he became 1st lieu- 
tenant of the 13tli Mississi])pi Infantry in the Confederate army and in 
1862 a captain. In 1863 he entered the cavalry, the 24th Mississippi, and 
served until the close of the war. After the war he engaged in farming, 
but held a few minor positions of honor and trust. He died in 1901. 

RoKEiiT PowEi.i., Mississi])])i, '70, graduated with the degree of B. S. 
He obtained his LL. B. at the Cumberland University Law School in 1871. 
He is now a member of the law firm of Powell & Tlioiii]ison of Jackson, 
Miss. He was mayor of Canton, Miss., from 1874 to 1879. He was 
chairman of the Democratic State Convention in 1882. He was presiden- 
tial elector from the state at-large in 1884. He was a ineiiiber of the 
Mississippi House of Representatives from 1890 to 1892. He was judge 
of the 7th judicial district of Mississippi from 1896 to 1903 and has been 
reporter of the Supreme Court of Mi.ssi.ssippi since 1911. He is a meinlier 
of the Democratic National Executive Committee from 1912 to 1916. 

WiLLiAJi Hamilton' Powei.i., Mississippi, '7.5, graduated with the de- 
gree of B. A. He was admitted to the Mississi])])i bar in 1876. By pro- 
fession he is a lawyer. He has been identified with many im])ortant causes 
in the state and federal courts. He was attorney for the citv of Canton 



256 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

from 1886 to 1896. He was president of the Mississippi State Bar Asso- 
ciation in 1911 and 1912. 

Arthur Peabody Pbatt, Boston, '96, graduated with a degree of 
B. S. He also took his S. T. B. degree in 1901, after which he did post- 
graduate work at Harvard and at the Andover Theological Seminary. 
He is a Congregational clergyman. He was located at Chelsea, Mass., 
from 1903 to 1906 and has been at Bellows Falls, Vt., since 1906. He is 
a lecturer and author of published addresses. He was given the degree 
of Ph. D. by Boston University in 1909. # B K. 

John Francis Pratt, Dartmouth, '71, has ever since his graduation 
been attached to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and from 
1895 to 1897 was chief of a division at the survey office in Washington. 
From 1899 to 1908 he commanded the coast survey steamer, "Patterson," 
and from 1908 to 1911 the steamer, "Pathfinder." In connection with his 
professional work he has done much exploring in Alaska and the neigh- 
boring regions. He was chief astronomer to the Alaska Boundary Com- 
mission of 1892 and in 1893 was the American representative on that Com- 
mission. He has commanded a large number of expeditions exploring the 
regions around Behring Sea, the Aleutian Islands and the Philippine Islands. 
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the National Geographic So- 
ciety and the Thayer Society of Engineers. He is also a member of the 
Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses and was a 
member of the 10th International Geographic Congress. His permanent 
address is Washington. 

William Henry Pratt, Dartmouth, '74, is general superintendent of 
the Illinois Steel Company and resides in Chicago, 111. 

*Thomas Lewis Preston, Virginia, '55, attended Washington-Lee Uni- 
versity, where he graduated in 1854. After leaving the University of Vir- 
ginia he was for two years professor of Latin at Washington-Lee Univer- 
sity and then attended the Princeton Theological Seminary, graduated in 
1858 and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He served as 
pastor of churches at Beverly, W. Va., Salem, Va., and other places, and 
from 1870 until his death, which occurred in 1895, was pastor of the First 
Presbyterian church at Richmond, Va. He received the degree of D. D. 
from Washington-Lee in 1872. 

Cornelius William Prettyman, Dickinson, '91, attended Delaware 
College prior to attending Dickinson. He was a graduate student at 




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Jolins Hopkins 1895-189(), a Fellow in Germanics in 1896-97, a graduate 
student at the University of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1899 and a stu- 
dent at the University of Berlin in 1898. He received the degree of Ph. 
D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. From 1900 he has' been 
professor of German at Dickinson College. He has contributed a num- 
ber of articles relating to the study of languages and similar subjects to 
technical journals, encyclopaedias and reviews, and has edited Book HI of 
Schiller's "Der Dreissig Jahrige Krieg;" also Fueda's "Der Talisman" 
and Wildenbruch's "Weid." * B K. 

ViRGir, PnETTYMAN, Dickiuson, '92, studied at Harvai-d and Colum- 
bia from 1894 to 1897. From 1892 to 189.5 he was instructor in various 
secondary schools. Since 1895 he has been principal of the Horace Mann High 
School in New York City. He was president in 1904 and 1905 of the 
New York School Master's Association, and since 1905 has been president 
of the Principals' Athletic Council in New York City. He is director of 
Camp Mossilauke for Boys. He is the author of "A First Book in Uatin." 
He resides in New York City. <I> B K. 

*OsCAR FiTZAiEx PiiiCE, Michigan, '58, graduated at the Michigan 
Law School in 1864. He served during the war in the quartermaster's de- 
partment in the Union army. After the war he practiced at Galesburg, 111. 
He was a member of the legislature of Illinois from 1870 to 1872. He was a 
presidential elector in 1876. He was a specialist in railway law and from 
1880 to 1897 was solicitor of the Illinois lines of the Burlington system. 
From 1881 to 1897 he was president of the Knox County Bar Association. 
He died at Kenosha, Wis., y\ug. 6, 1897. 

*TiioMAS Raxdoi.pii Price, Virginia, '56, received his Master's degree 
in 1858. He studied at Berlin from 1858 to 1860 and at Kiel from I860 to 
1861, and in Athens, Greece, from 1861 to 1862. Returning to the United 
States he entered the Confederate army as captain of engineers and 
served throughout the war. After the war he was principal of the Univer- 
sity School at Richmond, Va., from 1866 to 1868. He was professor of 
Latin and Greek at Randolph-Macon College from 1868 to 1871, of English 
ami Greek from 1871 to 1876, of Hebrew and Greek at the University of 
Virginia from 1876 to 1882 and of English I^iterature at Columbia LTni- 
versity from 1882 to 1903. He received the degree of U^. D. from Ran- 
dolph-Macon College in 1876. He died at New York in 1903. 

Henry Samuel Priest, Westminster, '72, is one of the leading lawyers 
of Missouri. From 1894 to 1904 he was United States district judge for the 



258 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Eastern District of Missouri. Previous to that time he had been general 
attorney for the Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. Subsequently he was general 
counsel for the San Francisco system and is now one of its receivers He 
resides in St. Louis. 

John Hassler Prugh, Wittenberg, '77, graduated from the Xenia 
Theological Seminary in 1880 and became a clergyman in the Reformed 
church. Since 1889 he has been vice president of the Board of Foreign 
Missions of the Reformed Church. From 1902 to 1905 he was president of the 
General Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States. In 1906 he was 
the delegate representing the Protestant churches of America at the dedi- 
cation of the Berlin Cathedral. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Ursinus College in 1893. He resides at Pittsburg, Pa. 

*WiLLiAM Rice Pryor, Washington & Lee, '76, studied at Princeton in 
1876 and 1877 and graduated in medicine from Columbia in 1881. From 
1884 to 1904 he was professor of Gynecologj^ at the New York Polyclinic. 
He was also consulting gynecologist at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York 
City. He was a member of the various learned societies relating to his 
specialty. He was the author of "Text Book of American Gynecology," 
"Pelvic Inflammation," "Text Book of Gynecology" and many others. He 
died at New York in 1904. 

Jacob J. Pugsley, Miami, '59, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., and 
moved to Ohio one year thereafter. After his graduation from Miami Uni- 
versity he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of 
the lower branch of the Ohio Legislature from 1881 to 1885 and of the 
upper branch from 1885 to 1887. He was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty- 
first Congresses as a Republican and served from 1887 to 1891. He resides 
at Hillsboro, Ohio. 

William Allen Pusey, Vanderbilt, '85, graduated from the Medical 
department of the University of New York in 1888. He is a specialist in 
Dermatology. Since 1894 he has been professor of Dermatology at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago. He has been president of 
the American Dermatological Association and treasurer of the American 
Medical Association. He is the author of "The Therapeutic Use of 
Rontgen Rays," "The Principles and Practice of Dermatology," and other 
technical works. He resides at Chicago, 111. <I> B K. 

* William Hamilton Pyle, Washington & Jefferson, '51, studied med- 
icine and received his M. D. degree from the Miami Medical College in 1853, 



JAMES FRANCIS AUGUSTIN PVKI<] 259 

and moved to Kaufman, Texas. During the war lie served as surgeon and 
major in the 19th Texas Cavalry in the Confederate army. From 1867 to 
1871 he was a member of the Texas Senate. He died March 1, 1891, at 
Kaufman, Texas. 

James Francis Augustix Pyhe, Wisconsin, '92, graduated with a de- 
gree of B. L. He began teaching at tlie University of Wisconsin in 1893 
and has been associate profesor of English at that institution since 1909. 
He is the author of "Outlines in English Literature," and co-editor of 
"Readings in English Literature." He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Wisconsin in 1897. <!> B K. 



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*Mattiiew Stanley Quay, Washington & Jefferson, '50, was a com- 
mencement orator at graduation. He studied law and began practice at 
Beaver, Pa. From 1856 to 1861 he was prothonotary of Beaver Count}', 
Pa. During tlie war lie served in various capacities in the Northern army. 
He was lieutenant of the 10th Pennsylvania Reserves, colonel of 'the 134th 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, lieutenant-colonel and assistant commissiary gen- 
eral of Pennsylvania, and major and chief of Transportation and Tele- 
graphs. He was also for a time state military agent at Washington, and 
military secretary to the governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of 
the Legislature of Pennsylvania from 1865 to 1867 and secretary of state 
of Pennsylvania from 1872 to 1878 and from 1879 to 1882, and was recorder 
of the city of Philadel])hia in 1878. He was treasurer of the state of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1885. He was I'nited States senator from 1887 to 1904. He was 
cltairmaii of the Republican state committee 1878-9 and of the National 
Iie]MibIic:m C'onmiittee in 1888. He died in 1904. 

EnMUNi) Chase QuEisEAr, Northwestern, '88, received the degree of Ph. 
M. ill 1892 and Ph. D. from the University of Freiburg (Baden) in 1893. 
From 1893 to 1895 he was a Fellow and instructor in Geology at tlie Uni- 
versity of Chicago. From 1895 to 1901 he was professor of Geilogy at 
Syracuse. From 1901 to 1907 lie was supervisor on the Chicago & North- 
western Railway. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America. He 
is the author of "The Geology of Switzerland," "The Geology of Jamesville 
Lake, N. Y." a monograpli on "Der Klippenregion von Ilierg," published 
by tiic Swiss government, and otlier iiajiers He retired in 1907 and resides 
at Bay City, Texas. 

Fraxki.ix UitiAir Qni.i.ix, Oliio Wesleyan, "OS, received iiis M. A. 
degree from Harvard in 1905 and a Ph. D. degree from Michigan in 1910. 
He was principal of the high school at Ypsilanti, Mich., for some years and 
is now professor of Economics and Sociology at Knox College. He is a 
member of the American Economic Association and author of "The Color 
Line in Ohio." He has also written numerous articles concerning tlie social 
])osition of the negro. He resides at Galesburg, 111. 

AHTiini HoBsox Qfixx, Peimsylvania, '94, was a student in piiilology 
at the I'niversity of Municli, 1897 and 1898, and at the graduate school of 

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the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1899. 
From 1894 to 1895 he was instructor in Mathematics at the University of 
Pennsylvania. From 189.5 to 1904 he was instructor in English; from 1904 
to 1908 assistant professor of English and since 1908 has been a professor of 
English. He was director of the Summer School of the University from 
1904 to 1907 and since 1912 has been dean of the College. From 1903 to 1912 
he was secretary of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of 
the middle states and Maryland and was president from 1912 to 1913. He is 
a member of the Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia, the Modern Lan- 
guage Association of America and other clubs and societies. He is the 
author of "Pennsylvania Stories" and the editor of a number of English 
classics and has contributed short stories to current periodicals. He re- 
sides in Cynwyd, Pa. <?> B K. 




MATTHEW STANLEY Ql'AY 
Washington and Jefferson '50 




BRAYTON H. RANSOM 
Nebraska '99 



R 

*JoHN Tavi.ou Kadfoiu), Virginia, '58, studied law and began its prac- 
tice at Montgomery Court House, Va. At the outbreak of the war he 
entered the Confederate army as captain of the 24th ^'irginia Infantry. In 
1862 he became a major of state troops, and in 1863 a colonel of the 22nd 
Virginia Cavalry. He was wounded in the battle of Cedarville, and died 
Nov 12th, 1864. 

*Reubex Samuei. Ragax, Wabash, '48, was mayor of Greencastle, 
Ind., from 1858 to 1860, County Superintendent of Schools in 1859, 
and a member of the Indiana Legislature from 1860 to 1861. During the 
war, from 1861 to 1865, he was a colonel and aide to Gov. Oliver P. Morton. 
He was an expert horticulturist and was the author of the Indiana State 
Horticultural Report of 1875. He died in 1895 at Spencer, Ind. 

George Junkix Ramsey, Hampden-Sidney, '78, attended the Univer- 
sity of Virginia from 1878 to 1880. From 1880 to 1884 lie was professor of 
Latin at Ogden College, from 1884 to 1899 president of Sillimnn Institute, 
I>a., from 1899 to 1902 editor in chief for the B. F. Johnson Publishing Co. 
of Richmond, Va., from 1902 to 1903 president of King College, and from 
1903 to 1906 of the Say re Institute. From 1906 to 1912 he was professor of 
education at Central University. Since 1912 he has been president of the 
Peace Institute. He was president of the Southern Educational Associa- 
tion, 1897-98, and secretary of the Kentucky Educational Commission, 1908- 
1910. He received the degree of LI>. D. from the Southwestern Presbyter- 
ian University in 1898. He resides at Raleigh, N. C. 

*Phixeas MrxsEi.L RAXDAi.r,, Brown, '.52, became a civil and mining 
engineer and a specialist in gold mining. He was the autlior of the "Quartz 
Operators' Hand Book" and a treatise on "Practical Hydraulics." He 
died at Westerly, R. I., in 1906. 

*James Curry Raxdolpii, Centre, '52, graduated as valedictorian. He 
attended the Danville Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1856, 
and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian cliiirch. At the outbreak of 
the war he enlisted in the Union army and served throughout the war as 
an enlisting officer with the rank of captain. He was ]>rofessor of Greek 
at Centre College from 1867 to 1870 and of Matbematics from 1870 to 1876, 

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at which time he resumed active service in tlie ministry. He died at Pewee 
Valley, Ky., in 1902. 

*George Pettus Raxey, Virginia, '67, studied law after his graduation 
and practicedi at Tallahasse, Florida. From 1865 to 1870 he was a mem- 
ber of the Florida Legislature and also from 1899 to 1902. From 1902 to 
1906 he was a member of the Florida Senate. From 1877 to 1884 he was 
attorney general of Florida, and from 1885 to 1889 associate justice of the 
Supreme Court of Florida, and from 1889 to • 1894 chief justice. He 
was a presidential elector in 1896. He was counsel for the Seaboard Air 
Line Railway from 1903 to 1911. During the war he served as a sergeant 
major in the 29th Georgia Artillery, C. S. A. He died Jan. 28, 1911, at 
Tallahasse, Florida. 

George Ckeath Rankin, Monmouth, '72, was city editor of the Coun- 
cil Bluffs Tribume in 1873 and editor of the Monmouth Atlas from 1873 
to 1880. From 1880 to 1891 he was clerk of the Circuit Court of Warren 
County, 111., and secretary of the Association of County Clerks of Illinois. 
He was secretary of the Republican State Conventions of 1886 and 1888, 
and postmaster at Monmouth, 111., from 1891 to 1895. He was editor of 
the Monmouth Republican from 1895 to 1901, and from 1901 to 1913 was 
general receiver of insolvent National Banks. He has always been inter- 
ested in military matters and was captain in the 6th Infantry of the Illi- 
nois National Guard from 1883 to 1889, and colonel and assistant adju- 
tant general on the staff of the governor of Illnois from 1889 to 1893. He 
was secretary of the Fraternity convention of 1875; general secretary of 
the Fraternity in 1876 and 1877 and editor of the Beta Theta Pi in 1877 
and 1878. He resides at Monmouth, 111. 

*James Edwin Rankin, Hanover, '56, after his graduation became a 
merchant at Henderson, Ky. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in 
the Confederate army as a lieutenant in Gravis and Cobb's Bat- 
tery, and afterwards became major and chief quartermaster. At the close 
of the war he returned to Henderson, Ky., where he died in 1892. 

Wii-LiAiM Thobiasson Rankin, Monmouth, '74, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in Iowa. From 1876 to 1878 he was assistant United 
States Attorney for the District of Iowa. From 1884 to 1886 he was city 
attorney for Keokuk, Iowa. From 1889 to 1895 he was assistant general 
counsel of the Pullman Palace Car Co., and from 1895 has been connected 
with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, first as assistant gen- 
eral Attorney and then as general attorney from 1906 to 1913. He was 



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president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway of Iowa for 
some years. He is now retired and resides at Keswick, Va. 

Bhayton Howard Ransom, Nebraska, '99, was a Fellow in Zoology at 
the University of Missouri in 1900 and 1901, at the University of Nebraska 
in 1901 and 1902 and a student at George Washington Medical School from 
1903 to 1904. He was an assistant in the Marine Hospital Service from 1902 
to 1903, and since 1903 has been in charge of the Zoological Laboratory of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry in the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington, being the chief of the division of Zoology since 1906. He received 
the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska in 1908. He is the 
author of a number of papers on Parasitology. He was United States dele- 
gate to the Seventh International Zoological Congress. He is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He resides at 
Washington. <1> B K, 2 S. 

*Wyi.i.vs Cai.dwei.i. Raxsom, Michigan, '48, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He also practiced as a civil engineer. From 1848 to 
1850 he was private secretary to his father, who was governor of Michi- 
gan. From 1857 to 1860 he was chief clerk in the surveyor-general's -office 
and as such made explorations of the natural resources of Kansas and 
Nebraska. In 1861 he entered the Union army in the 6th Kansas Cavalry 
and was promoted to the position of ma.ior and brevet-colonel and colonel 
before the close of the war. From 1869 to 1875 he was auditor and treas- 
urer of a railroad in Kansas. From 1865 to 1867 he was clerk of the cir- 
cuit court of Jackson, Mo. From 1877 to 1880 he was auditor to the Chi- 
cago & I>ake Huron Railroad. From 1881 to 1891 he was deputy commis- 
sioner of railroads of Michigan. In 1873 and 1874 he was president of the 
Board of Education at Lawrence, Kansas. His services to the Fraternity 
were numerous. He was secretary of the convention of 1848 and president 
of the conventions of 1874, 1875, 1880 and 1883. He was a member of the 
Board of Directors from 1879 to 1885 and of the Board of Trustees from 
1894 to 1897. He was a member of the code commission from 1895 to 
1897. He was visiting officer of the Fraternity from 1880 to 1883 and alumni 
secretary from 1884 to 1888. He was author of the ritual of 1880 and of 
the fraternity snng, "Wooglin Forever." He died at Grand Rapids, Mich- 
igan, Feb. 1, 1908. 

FiiF.nEHicK Leslie Raxso:me, California, '93, was a Fellow in Geology at 
California after graduation and received his Ph. D. degree in 1896. In 1896 
and 1897 he was an assistant in Mineralogy and Petrography at Harvard. 
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geologist on the United States Geological Survey and is now in charge of 
the sections of M''estern Areal Geology and Metalliferous Deposits in that 
organization. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In 1907 
he was a lecturer on Geology at the University of Chicago. He was Silliman 
lecturer at Yale, 1913. He was president of the Geological Society of 
Washington in 1913 and vice president of the Washington Academy of Sci- 
ence in 1914. He has written many papers and monograhs on his specialty. 
He is an associate editor of Economic GeoJogn and the Journal of the Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences. He resides at Washington, D. C. <^ B K, S S- 

William A. Rawles^ Indiana, '84, has been professor of Political 
Economy at the Indiana University since 1908 and assistant dean of the 
College of Liberal Arts since 1909. After leaving college he was prin- 
cipal of a high school at Mitchell, Ind. He then taught for two years in 
the preparatory department of the University of Indiana and then for 
some years at St. Louis and Sedalia, Mo. In 1894 he entered the depart- 
ment of Economics at the University of Indiana and was gradually pro- 
moted to his present position. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Columbia in 1903. He is the author of "The Government of the People 
of the State of Indiana," and "Centralizing Tendencies in the Adminis- 
tration of Indiana. He is a member of a number of learned societies. 
* B K. 

*Bexjamix Fraxklix Rawlixs, DePauw, '49, entered the ministry 
of the Methodist Episcopal church. From 18.54 to 1859 he was president 
of Asbury Female College. From 1891 to 1905 he was an editor of the 
Western Christian Advocate. He was the author of many pamphlets and 
papers. He received the degree of D. D. from Illinois Wesleyan in 1868. 
He died at Madison, Ind., in 1905. 

Joseph Lafayette Rawlixs, Indiana, '74, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar at Salt I-ake City, Utah. From 1873 to 1875 he was professor of 
I>aw in the University of Deseret. From 1876 to 1880 he was city attorney 
to Salt Lake. In 1893 he became a delegate to Congress from Utah and 
served until 1897, and from 1897 to 1903 he was United States Senator 
from Utali. He is practicing law at Salt Lake City, where he resides. 

*JoHX^ William Ray, DePauw, '48, became a banker and settled at 
Indianapolis. In 1860 he was a presidential elector. He entered the Union 
army in 1861 and became colonel of the 49th Indiana Volunteers. In 
1864 he was appointed pension agent and served for two years, when he 
was appointed register in bankruptcy and served for ten years. He was 




WTLLYS C. RANSOM 
Michigan '4 8 




WILLIAM A. RAWLES 
Indiana '84 



THADDEUS ASBVRY REAMY 267 

treasurer of DePauw University from 1867 to 1906', also of the Indian- 
apolis Savings Bank from 1870 to 1879. He was vice president and 
cashier of the Bank of Commerce from 1880 to 190(). He died at Indian- 
apolis in 1906. 

Jerome Hali. Raymond, Northwestern, "92, received an A. M. degree 
from Northwestern in 1893 and a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 
189.5. From 1889 to 1890 he was private secretary to George M. Pullman. 
He was secretary to Bishop Thoburn of the Methodist Episcopal church 
in 1890, 1891 and 1892, and traveled with him in Europe and Asia. In 1892 
and 1893 he was secretary and lecturer in History for the Chicago Society 
for University Extension. In 1893 and 1894 he was professor of History 
and Political Science at Eawrence University. In 1894 and 1895 he was 
lecturer on Sociology for the University Extension division of the University 
of Chicago. In 1895, 1896 and 1897 he was professor of Sociology and secre- 
tary of the University Extension Dejiartment of the University of Wiscon- 
sin. From 1897 to 1901 he was president and professor of Economics and 
Sociology at AVest Virginia; from 1901 to 1909 he was associate professor of 
Sociology at tlie University of Chicago. In 1909 and 1910 he was president 
and professor of Economics and Political Science at Toledo University, To- 
ledo, Ohio; from 1910 to 1912 he was professor of Economics and Political 
Science at Knox College, lecturing also for the University of Chicago and 
other institutions. Since 1912 he has been director of the University Ex- 
tension Society, and lecturing for the University of Ciiicago, Lawrence Col- 
lege, Columbia University, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, etc. 
He resides at Evanston, 111. 

Beveiu.y Ali.ex Read, Texas, '92, is a major and judge advocate in 
the United States army, and is at present on duty at Manila in the Philip- 
pines. 

jAsrEs Fraser Read, Centre, '74, graduated at the Eouisville Law 
School in 1876, and became a lawyer. In 1883 he was secretary to the 
governor of yVrkansas and adjutant-general of Arkansas. From 1893 to 
1907 he was United States district attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas. He is attorney for the Kansas City Southern Railway and 
president of the Arkansas Western R. R. He resides at Fort Smith, Ark.. 

*Thaddeus Asbitry Reamy, Ohio Wesleyan, was an lionorary member 
admitted in 1867 just before he received his Master's degree. He was not 
a college man, but graduated in medicine from the Starling Medical Col- 
lege in 1854. For nine years he was in general practice. In 1860 he was 



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elected to the Ohio Legislature. In 1861 he entered the Union army as a 
surgeon, and received leave of absence to attend to his legislative duties, 
but was ordered to return to his dutj' as a surgeon. From 1863 
to 1871 he was professor of Obstetrics at the Starling Medical College, 
from 1871 to 1904 he was professor of Clinical Gynecology at the Ohio 
Medical College. He was founder of the Cincinnati Obstetrics Society, and 
president and a fellow of the American Gynaecological Society. He was 
one of the best known abdominal surgeons in the country. He died March 
18, 1909. He took a great interest in the Fraternity and for some years 
was a member of the board of trustees. 

Silas Deast Reed, Amherst, '93, graduated from the law department 
of Boston University in 1895 and has since that time practiced law at 
Taunton, Mass. He was a member of the lower house of the Massachu- 
setts Legislature from 1897 to 1902, and of the upper house in 1905 and 
1906. 

James H. Reeder, DePauw, '78, is a lawyer in practice at Kansas City, 
Mo., where he is assistant general counsel of the St. Louis-Kansas City 
Electric Railway Company. From 1889 to 1891 he was a member of the 
Kansas Legislature. From 1891 to 1892 he was clerk of the United States 
Court of Spanish Land Claims and from 1902 to 1906 judge of the 23rd 
Judicial District of Kansas. He resides at Kansas City. 

Albert Moore Reese, Johns Hopkins, '92, received a Ph. D. degree in 
1900. From. 1892 to 1897 he was a teacher of Science in the Friends High 
School at Baltimore. From 1893 to 1897 he was lecturer on Chemistry at 
the Southern Hoipeopathic Medical College. In 1897 he was lecturer on 
Histology at Pennsylvania College. From 1901 to 1902 he was profes'sor 
of Biology at Allegheny College, from 1902 to 1907 associate profes- 
sor of Histology and embryology at Syracuse University, and since 
1907 has been professor of Zoology at the University of West Virginia. 
He is the author of an "Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" and has 
done much original investigation and written many articles on zoolog- 
ical and embryological subjects. He is a member of the Society of 
American Zoologists, and an associate of the Society of American 
Anatomists, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. He 'is a research grantee of the Smithsonian Institution. 
He resides at Morgantown, W. Va. * B K, 2 S, K ^. 

Henry Augustus Reeves, Michigan, '52, left college without graduat- 
ing, but graduated from Union in 1852. In accordance with the custom 




JOSEPH L. RAWLIN.S 
Indiana '74 




THADDEUS A. REAMY 
Ohio Wesleyan 



.IAMI':S MA 1)1 SOX REV X OLDS 269 

then obtaininjif lie hecaiiie by ])erniissi()n, a member of Delta Plii at 
Union. For fifty-five yeans he has been editor of the Repuhli- 
can Watchman at Greenport, N. Y. He was a member of Congress from 
1869 to 1871. From 1887 to 1889 he was a member of the New York Leg- 
islature. From 1889 to 1897 lie was a member of the State Commission of 
Lunacy. He resides at Greenport, N. Y. He has been a voluminous 
writer of ])amphlets, addresses and similar literature. 

*Edward Foutescuf, Reid, Hanover, '(jl, attended Queen's College. 
Belfast, Ireland, before attending Hanover. He left college without grad- 
uating and entered the Union army in 18(51 and served until 1865, be- 
coming a captain in the 13th Indiana Cavalry. He then entered the min- 
istry of the United Presbyterian church. From 1868 to 1874 he was 
president of Ohio Central College, and from 1874 to 1889 professor of Latin 
and Hebrew at Monmouth College. He received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Wooster in 187.5. He died at Monmouth March 23, 1889. 

WiM.iAM Thoinias Reid, Illinois, "67, graduated at Harvard in 1868. 
For a time he was superintendent of schools in Brookline, Mass., then 
was assistant head master at the Boston Latin School and head master of 
the Boys' High School in San Francisco. From 1881 to 1885 he was presi- 
dent of the University of California and since that time has been head mas- 
ter of the Belmont School at Belmont, Cal. In 1862 he was in the Union 
army as sergeant of the 68th Illinois Volunteers. 

Mii.Tox Remley, Iowa, '67, studied law and was admitted to the bar. 
In 1892 he was a presidential elector. From 1895 to 1901 he was attor- 
ney general of Iowa. For many years he has been president of the lioard 
of trustees of Des Moines College. He resides at Iowa City. 

*Vi>rcENT Adams Rexottf, Johns Hopkins, '98, did graduate work at 
Harvard in 1900 and received his Ph. D. degree in 1901. For two years he 
taught at the Boston Latin School. He then entered the Chinese Customs 
service, but in 1906 became professor of History at the Imperial Chinese 
University. He was the author of "Outlines of General History."' He died 
at Tientsin, China, May 4, 1910. * B K. 

* James Madisox Reyxoids, DePauw, '46, settled at LaFayette, Ind.. 
and engaged in banking and railroading. From 1874 to 1889 he was vice 
president and general manager of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago 
R. R. He died in 1901. 



270 ' BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Erxest Rice, Cumberland, '93, was admitted to the bar and began 
practice at Dyersburg, Tenn. From 1905 to 1909 he was a member of the 
Tennessee Senate and speaker. He resides at Dyersburg. 

*HoRACE Rice, Centre, "57, graduated in law in 1859 at the Cumber- 
land University I^aw School. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as 
a major and was promoted to the position of colonel of the 29th Tennessee 
Volunteer Infantry. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1870 
to 1871, and died at Lexington, Ky., Sept. 4, 1871. 

Charles Aloxzo Rich, Dartmouth, '75, studied architecture in the 
United States and Europe until 1882 and since then has been engaged in 
practice in New York City and has acquired eminence in his profession. 
Among the works erected by him are the recent buildings of Dartmouth 
College, many of the buildings of Smith, Amherst and Williams Colleges, 
all of the buildings of Barnard College, the Pratt Institute, and many opera 
houses, theatres, apartments and public and private buildings throughout 
the country including the house of the Dartmouth Chapter. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural League of 
New York and similar organizations. 

Joseph Warford Rich, Iowa, '70, served during tlie war as a private 
in the 12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. From 1871 to 
1886 he was editor of the Eagle at Vinton, Iowa, and from 1875 to 1879 
was postmaster at that place. From 1886 to 1892 he was regent of the 
University of Iowa and librarian of the LTniversity from 1892 to 1898. He 
is the author of the "Hampton Roads Conference" and "The Battle of 
Shiloh." He resides at Iowa City. 

HiTGiT TuDOR Richards, Kansas, '78, has devoted himself to railroad 
M^ork in Mexico and the Southwest. He is chief engineer of the San Diego 
Eastern Railway and the Bay Shore and Pacific Railway. He resides at 
San Diego, Cal. 

*WiLi,iAJM "S'lGORs Richards, Michigan, '62, entered the United States 
army in 1861 as first lieutenant in the First Michigan Lancers, and was 
advanced imtil he became adjutant-general, inspector general and judge 
advocate of the First Division 9th Army Corps, with the rank of brigadier- 
general. After the war he entered the regular army as a second lieutenant 
of Infantry, and was promoted until he acquired the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel of the 7th United States Infantrj^ He died at Vancouver Barricks, 
Washington, in 1901. 




JOSEPH W. RICH 
Iowa '70 




IRA K RIDER 
St. Lawrence '88 



VIIARLKS HEXDEE RII'PEY 271 

CoELLA IvixDSAY RicKETTs, Oliio, "84, iias (levoted liiinself to the almost 
lost art of illuminating manU.scri])ts and lias become an eminent authority 
and practitioner in this art. He resides in Chicago. 

*Ira Edgar Rider, St. Lawrence, '88, attended for a time before go- 
ing to St. Lawrence, the College of the City of New York. After gradua- 
tion he attended the Canton Theological Seminary and entered the ministry 
of the Universalist church. He then studied law and was admitted 
to the bar. From 1898 to 1902 he was secretary of the Borough of Man- 
hattan, New York City. From 1903 to 190.5 he was a member of Congress. 
He died in 1906 at New York. 

John Davis Seaton Riggs, Chicago, '78, was principal of the Com- 
mercial department of the Salt Lake Academy in 1878 and 1879 and of 
the preparatory department of the University of Chicago from 1879 to 
1886. He was the organizer and principal of Granville Academy at 
Denison University from 1887 to 1896. From 1896 to 1905 he was pres- 
ident of Ottawa L^niversity, Kansas, and from 1905 to 1912 of ShurtleflP 
College. From 1899 to 1905 he was president of the Kansas College Pres- 
idents' Association. He is the author of works on "Caesar" and "Cicero," 
has delivered many lectures and contributed much to tiie periodical press. 
He resides at Denver, Colo. <!> B K. 

Robert Baird Riggs, Beloit, '76, studied chemistry in Europe after his 
graduation and received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Gott- 
ingen in 1883. From 1884 to 1887 he was a chemist of the United States 
Geological Survey. From 1885 to 1887 he was professor of Pharmacy at the 
National College of Pharmacy. Since 1887 he has been professor of Chem- 
istry at Trinity C-ollege and since 1890 state chemist of Connecticut. He is 
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and 
a member of the American Chemical Society and the German Chemical So- 
ciety. He resides at Hartford, Conn. 

George Washixgtox Rii.ey, Pennsylvania, '95, after liaving engaged 
in business for some years, graduated at tlie College of Osteopathy at 
Kirksville, Mo., in 1904, and has since practiced in New York City as an 
osteopathic physician. He has been president of the New York Osteo- 
pathic Society and is the author of the article relating to Osteopathy in 
the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. 

Chari.es Hexdee Rippey, Ohio and Ohio Weslevan, '61, entered the Un- 
ion armv in 1861 as second lieutenant of the 17th Ohio Volunteers. He was 



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soon promoted and in 1863 became colonel of the 90th Ohio Volunteers. He 
is a lawyer and resides at Columbus, Ohio. 

Samuel Doty Risley^ Iowa, '68, graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1870 and became a specialist in 
eye and ear diseases. He has been a lecturer on these subjects and has 
invented improved apparatus useful in connection with practice therein. He 
has been professor of diseases of the eye at the Philadelphia Polyclinic, 
president of the American Academy of Medicine (1891) of the American 
Ophthalmological Society in 1907 and a member of a large number of other 
learned societies more or less related to his specialty. He resides at Media, 
Pa. 

Fraxk Humphrey Ristine, Wabash, '05, receiv^ed the degree of Ph. D. 
from Columbia in 1910. He is professor of English Literature at Hamil- 
ton College and resides at Clinton, N. Y. f> B K. 

Timothy Rives, Richmond, '76, studied law and was admitted to the 
bar and has since been a lawyer and farmer. From 1883 to 1889 he was a 
judge of Prince George and Surrey Counties, Va., and from 1889 to 1894 a 
judge of Greenville County. He was a member of the board of world's fair 
managers in 1892 and of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901. 
He resides at Rives, Va. 

WiLi-is Oscar Robb, Ohio Wesleyan, '79, was teacher of Latin at Farm- 
ers College, Ohio, from 1879 to 1883. In 1884-5 he was adjuster and acting 
secretary of the Insurance Adjustment Company of Cincinnati. From 1885 
to 1895 he was state agent and adjuster for the Liverpool, London & 
Globe Insurance Co., for Ohio and West Virginia. From 1895 to 1902 he 
was general adjuster for the Norwich Union Fire Office in New York City. 
From 1902 to 1910 he was secretary and chief adjuster of the committee on 
losses and adjustments of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters, and 
since 1910 has been manager of the New York Fire Insurance Exchange. 
He has delivered numerous addresses on fire insurance subjects in courses 
of instruction in Yale and New York Universities, and before insurance 
societies in many cities. His services to the Fraternity have been numerous 
and important. He was editor of the Beta Thefa Pi from 1878 to 1879, 1882 
to 1883 and 1884 to 1885. He was a member of the board of directors from 
1884 to 1889 and of the board of trustees from 1897 to 1906, and was pres- 
ident of the Fraternity from 1903 to 1906. He resides at Richmond Hill, 
N. Y. <J>BK. 

*Christopiier Wilt-s Robertsox, Cumberland, '59, studied law and 
began to practice at Charlotte, Tenn. When the war broke out he entered 




WILLIS O. ROI3B 
Ohio Wesleyan '79 




ARTHUR B. ROUSE 
Hanover '96 



OREX ROOT 273 

the Confederate army and by 1863 became a lieutenant-colonel. He was 
killed at tlie battle of Chickamauga in 1863. 

Lksi.ik Robinsox, Knox, '.58, graduated from Yale in 1858 and received 
his master's degree in 1861. He was mayor of Peoria, 111., in 1876 and 1877. 
He is connected with many industrial enterprises and has been president of 
Nicol, Burr & Co., the Peoria Gas, Light & Coke Co., the Electric Light & 
Power Co. of Peoria, and the Gipp Brewing Co. He resides at Peoria, 111. 

*Matthew McCt.rNG Robinsox, Cumberland, '57, became a physician 
and settled down to practice at Huntsville, Ala. In 1861 he entered the 
Confederate army and became a major. He died in 1868 from injuries 
contracted in the service. 

James Ai.exaxdeh Roiibach, Western Reserve, '84, is dean of the Indi- 
ana Law School, Indianapolis. After graduation he studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania. He was district attorney of Union 
County, Pa., from 1891 to 1892. He then became an assistant professor of 
Law at tiie University of Iowa and professor in 1894. He was a professor 
and secretary of the faculty until 1899, when he acce]>ted his present posi- 
tion. While in Iowa he was much interested in military affairs and was on 
the staif of the governor for four years with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 
He was for several years cliief of a Fraternity district. 4> B K. 

*Omver Browx Roller, Virginia Military Institute, '76, after his 
graduation in 1876, went to the University of Virginia, where he studied 
law, graduating in 1881. He began the practice of the law at once and 
continued it until his death. He was elected mayor of Harrisonburg, Va., 
in 1896 and was re-elected every four years imtil he had served six con- 
secutive terms. In 1897 he was nominated for the office of lieutenant gov- 
ernor, and, although he ran ahead of liis ticket, he was defeated. In 1877, 
while at the LTniversity of Virginia, he was elected captain of the Harri- 
sonburg Guards. This became Company C of the second Virginia Infantry. 
As its commanding officer Captain Roller made it one of the crack com- 
mands of the country. In 1890 he was elected colonel of the Second In- 
fantry. Wiien the war with Spain broke out he was mustered into the 
United States Army as lieutenant-colonel of Volunteers. He commanded 
the troops at Camp Lee at Richmond. He died at Harrisonburg, Va., Sept. 
30, 1912. 

*Ort:x Root. Missouri; was an honorary member of the Alpha Chap- 
ter of Zeta Phi, which became the Missouri Chapter of the fraternity. He 
was the founder of Zeta Phi while he was a professor at the University 



274 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

of Missouri. He was a member of Sigma Phi at Hamilton College and 
graduated in the class of '56. He was admitted to the bar in Milwaukee, 
but never practiced law. He was a teacher in secondary schools until 
1866 when he became professor of English at the University of Missouri. 
In 1871 he was superintendent of schools at CarroUton, Mo., and from 
1874 to 1876 president of Pritchett Institute, Glasgow, Mo. He then en- 
tered the ministry of the Prebyterian church and was pastor of churches 
at Glasgow and Salesburg, Mo., until 1878. From 1880 to 1907 he was 
professor of Mathematics at Hamilton College, and from 1889 to 1907 pas- 
tor of a Dutch Reformed church at Utica, N. Y. He was the author of an 
"Elementary Trigonometry" and two school speakers. He died in 1907 at 
Clinton, N. Y. 

Arthur Blythe Rouse, Hanover, '96, received the degree of LL. B. 
from the Louisville Law school in 1900 and is practicing law at Burlington, 
Ky. From 1903 to 1910 he was a member of the Democratic State Exe- 
cutive Committee. Since 1910 he has been a member of Congress. 

Edgar Healy Rowe, Randolph-Macon, '77, Virginia, '80, graduated 
from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1887, and became a clergyman 
of the Methodist Episcopal church. From 1888 to 1894 he was principal of 
Bowling Green Female Seminary. In 1894 he founded the Southern Sem- 
inary at Buena Vista, Va., and has since been its principal. 

*Philander Chase Royce, Knox, '60, after leaving college was super- 
intendent of schools at Joliet, 111. In 1862 he entered the fire insurance 
business. From 1876 to 1881 he was secretary of the Girard Fire and Marine 
Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and from 1881 to 1907 secretary of the 
Hartford Fire Insurance Co. He was an alderman of Hartford in 1895 
and 1896. He was president of the common council in 1893 and 1894, and 
at tlie time of his death was president of the Board of Park Commissioners. 
He died Dec. 1, 1907. 

Cyrus Dustix Roys, Michigan, '61, received the degree .of A. B. in 
1863 and A. M. in 1865 from Adrian College and A. M. in 1875 from Hills- 
dale College. From 1863 to 1865 he was 1st lieutenant in the First Michi- 
gan Artillery in the Union army. From 1867 to 1870 he was editor and 
proprietor of the Leavenworth (Kansas) Daily Bulletin. He then vmder- 
took the practice of law in Chicago and became a specialist in railroad 
law. From 1870 to 1885 he was attorney for the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railway, and from 1870 to 1876 for the Wisconsin Central Rail- 
way. From 1881 to 1890 he was vice president of and counsel for the 
United States Rolling Stock Co. He was a trustee of Adrian College and 



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of Hillsdale College for many years. He was president of the Union 
League Club of Chicago in 1891. He is the author of an historical novel, 
"Captain Jack." He has now retired from practice and resides at Elk- 
hart, Ind. He was orator before the Fraternity convention of 1887. 

Thomas Lewis Rubey, Missouri, '85, was for five years superintend- 
ent of schools at Lebanon, Mo. Later he taught at the Missouri School 
of Mines. He has been a member of the Missouri I^egislature and of the 
Senate and was speaker of the Senate. From 1903 to 1905 he was lieu- 
tenant-governor of Missouri. Since 1911 he has been a member of Con- 
gress. He resides at Lebanon, Mo. 

Hermak David Ruhm, Vanderbilt, '92, is a civil engineer. For many 
years he has been engaged in the phosphate industry in Tennessee, and is 
still president of the Ruhm Phosphate Mining Company at Mt. Pleasant, 
Tenn. He is vice president and general manager of the Niagara Alkali 
Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y., of which he is the founder, and is the only 
manufacturer of caustic potash in yVmerica. He resides at Buffalo, N. Y. 

Fraxklix Marshall Rule, Michigan, '82, studied tlieology and en- 
tered the Minnesota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 
1883 He was presiding elder and district superintendent from 1898 to 
1909 and since 1909 has been pastor of the Holman Church at St. Paul. 
He was a delegate to the General Conferences of 1908 and 1912. Since 
1908 he has been a member of the Board of Sunday Schools. He is the 
author of "Normal Outline Lessons on the Bible." He resides in St. Paul, 
Minn. 

Ja:mes Fowler Ri'slixg, Dickinson, '.54, was a member of the local 
fraternity which became the Dickinson Chapter. He was professor in 
Dickinson Seminary from 1854 to 1857, and then studying law was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1858. In 1861 he entered the Union army as first 
lieutenant of the 5th New Jersey Infantry and was successively pro- 
moted until he was mustered out in 1867 as a brigadier-general. He was 
United States pension agent for New Jersey from 1868 to 1877. Since 
then he has practiced law at Trenton, N. J. He has been for many 
years a trustee of Dickinson and president of the board of trustees of 
Pennington Seminary. He has many times represented the Methodist 
church in different capacities. He is the author of "Across America," "His- 
tory of Pennington Seminary," "Men and Things I saw in Civil War 
Days," European Days and Ways," and "A History of the Rusling fam- 
ily." 



276 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*JoHx MosHEiM RuTHRAUFF, Wittenberg, "71, graduated from the 
theological Seminary in 1872 and became an English Lutheran clergy- 
man. He was a director of Wittenberg college in 1884 and 1885, and of Car- 
thage College, Illinois, from 1888 to 1900. From 1900 to 1902 he was 
president of Wittenberg College, and died at Springfield, Ohio, while hold- 
ing that position. He received the degree of D. D. from Wittenberg in 1899. 
During one year of the war he was a private in the 162d Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry in the Union army. 

Bekjamin Huger RtiTLEDGE, Virginia Military Institute, '80, grad- 
uated at Yale in 1882. He is a lawyer at Charleston, S. C, and a member 
of the firm of Mordecai, Gadsden & Rutledge. He was delegate-at-large 
at the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904. 

*MiCHAEL Cr.ARKSON Ryan, Miami, '39, graduated from the Cin- 
cinnati Law School in 1842 and settled at Hamilton, Ohio. From 1848 to 
1852 he was prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio. From 1852 to 
1858 he was clerk of the County Courts. He was a delegate to the Nat- 
ional Democratic convention of 1856. In 1861 he entered the Union army 
as colonel of the 50th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which he was instrumental 
in organizing. He died Oct. 23, 1861. He was an associate founder of the 
Fraternity. 

Robert Steele Ryohs^ Indana, '65, attended the United States Naval 
Academy in 1863, where he became the founder of the Naval Academy 
Chapter. After leaving college he was admitted to the bar and settled in 
Missouri. He was prosecuting attorney from 1874 to 1878 and a presi- 
dential elector in 1880. From 1884 to 1892 he was a member of the Mis- 
souri Senate and since 1905 has been circuit judge of the 32nd Missouri 
Circuit. He resides at Lynn, Mo. 




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*George Frederick Saal^ Cornell, '87, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from the University of Berlin in 1891. From 1895 to 1909 he was professor 
of German at Western Reserve College. He died in Cleveland in 1909. 

Edwix he Graxd Sabix, Iowa, '92, is the author of the "Making 
of Iowa," "The Magic Mashie," "Beaufort Chums," "When You Were a 
Boy," "Bar B Boys," "Range and Trail," "Circle K," "Old Four Toes," 
"Treasure Mountain," "Scarface Ranch," "With Carson and Fremont," 
"On the Plains with Custer," "Kit Carson Days," and other boys' books. 
He resides at I.a Jolla, Cal. 4> B K. 

Eldridge Hosmer Sabix, Iowa, '80, is a lawyer by profession . In the 
Spanish war he was a member of the First Texas Volunteer Cavalry. He 
is the author of "Early American History for Young Americans," "Stella's 
Adventures in Starland," "The Magical Man of Mirth," "The Queen of the 
City of Mirth," "Baby Brownie's Birthday." He resides at I^a Jolla, Cal. 
*BK. 

Wallace Clemext Sabine, Ohio State, '8G, Harvard, '88, has been 
connected with Harvard University ever since his graduation as an as- 
sistant in Physics from 1889 to 1890, as instructor from 1890 to 1895, as 
assistant professor from 1895 to 1905 and as professor since 1905. He is 
dean of the Scientific school. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Sciences. He is the author of "Physical Measurements," and "Archi- 
tectural Acoustics." He resides at Cambridge, Mass. <l> B K, 2 E. 

*James Merrill Safforij, Ohio, '44., was professor of Natural Science 
at Cumberland University from 1848 to 1873, professor of Chemistry at 
Vanderbilt 1874-94 and of Natural Sciences from 1875 to 1900. He was 
state geologist of Tennessee froiu 1854 to 1860 and 1871 to 1900. He was 
the author of "Geological Reconnoissance of Tennessee," "Geology of Ten- 
nessee," "Elements of the Geology of Tennessee,"' and of many pamphlets 
and papers. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Yale in ISCG and M. D. 
from the University of Nashville in 1872. He died at Dallas, Texas, in 
1907. 

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278 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

RoLLiN D. Salisbuiiy, Beloit, '81, from 1883 to 1884 was an instructor 
in Geology at Beloit and from 1884 to 1891 was professor at the same col- 
lege, although during 1887 and 1888 he was a student at Heidelberg. From 
1891 to 1892 he was professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin. 
Since 1892 he has been connected with the department of Geology and Ge- 
ography at the University of Chicago, and has been head of the depart- 
ment of Geography since 1899. From 1894 to 1896 he was dean of the 
University Colleges and since 1899 of the Ogden (Graduate) School of Sci- 
ence. He has also held some important administrative positions. He was 
assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, from 1882 to 1894, and since 
then geologist. He had charge of an important division of the work of the 
New Jersey Geological Survey for several years and has published several 
important volumes embodying the results of his studies. He has charge of 
the educational publications of the Illinois Geological Survey. He is a 
Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the 
Geological Society of America and the Association of American Geogra- 
phers. He is joint author of a three-volume treatise on Geology, of a 
college Geology, of two books on Geography written from the modern point 
of view, of a treatise on "The Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi 
Valley," and author of the standard treatise on Physiography. He received 
the degree of LL. D. from Beloit in 1904. He resides in Chicago. 

William Mackintire Salter, Knox, '71, studied at Yale Divinity 
School from 1871 to 1873 and then at the Harvard Divinity School, from 
which he graduated in 1876. As Parker Fellow of Harvard he attended 
the University of Gottingen from 1876 to 1877. After a period of illness, 
he attended the School of Political Science at Columbia from 1881 to 1883. 
From 1883 to 1892 and from 1897 to 1908 he was the Lecturer of the Society 
for Ethical Culture of Chicago. Between 1892 and 1897 he was the Lecturer 
of a similar society in Philadelphia. During this semi-public period of his 
career he was active in the agitation for an eight-hour work day, opposed 
the wholesale execution of the Chicago anarchists, spoke against the Rus- 
sian treaty in 1893, advocated President Cleveland's course on the Vene- 
zuela question, favored the war for the liberation of Cuba, opposed the 
war in the Philippines (being vice president of the anti-imperialist league), 
and stood for the cause of woman and the essential principles of the single 
tax. Since 1908 he has engaged in philosophical study and writing, and 
was special lecturer for the Department of Philosophy in the LTniversity of 
Chicago from 1909 to 1913. He is the author of "On a Foundation for Re- 
ligion," "Die Religion der Moral," "Moralische Reden," "Ethical Religion," 
"First Steps in Philosophy," "Anarchy or Government and Inquiry in 



TIl().\f.lS EDMIWD SAV.Kll': 279 

Fundamental Politics," and many articles in literary and philosophical 
periodicals. He resides at Silver Lake, N. H. 

*JoHN RussELi, Sampson, Hampden-Sidney, "72, received liis A. M. de- 
gree in 1874. He was professor of I>atin and French at Davidson College 
from 1875 to 1891 and principal of the Pantops Academy from 1891 to 1908. 
He died at Charlottesville, Va., in 1908. 

AiMARO Sato, DePauw, '81, studied Japanese, Chinese and English 
Literature at Hirosaki College and then attended DePauw University, 
graduating in 1881, and entered the Department of Foreign Affairs at 
Tokio. From 1887 to 1891 he was secretary of legation in Washington, 
and charge d' affaires ad interim in 1889; 1891-3 secretary of legation 
in London; 1893-6 in the service of the Department for Foreign Af- 
fairs. In 189.5 he was a member of the suite of the Japanese pleni- 
potentiaries at Shimonoseki; 1896-9, secretary of legation in Paris; 1897, 
as charge d' affaires, accompanied his imperial highness. Prince Arisugawa 
on his visit to her majesty, the Queen Regent of Spain, at San Sebastian; 
1899-1900, secretary of legation in Berlin; 1900-2, minister resident and 
consul-general to Mexico and minister resident to Peru; 1902-6, in the ser- 
vice of the Department for Foreign Affairs in Tokio; 1904-0.5, presided over 
the Intelligence Commission in the Department for Foreign Affairs; 1904, 
as grand master accompanied his imperial highness. Prince Sadanaru 
Fushimi, during his visit to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. 
Louis; 1905, was a member of the suite of the Japanese plenipotentiaries 
at Portsmouth and also at Pekin the same year; 1906, appointed en- 
voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands 
and Denmark; 1907, second delegate to tlie second Peace Conference 
at The Hague; 1911, delegate to the International Opium Conference 
at the Hague. He has received the following decorations: Grand Cordon 
of Rising Sun and Grand Cordon of Sacred Treasures of Japan; Grand 
Cordon of Orange-Nassau of Holland and Grand Cordon Daneborg of Den- 
mark. 

Thomas Edmund Savagk, Iowa Wesleyan, '95, graduated also at the 
University of Iowa in 1899. He was professor of Geology and Biology 
at Western College at Toledo, Iowa, from 1899 to 1903. He was assistant 
geologist of the Iowa Geological Survey from 1903 to 1906. He has been 
assistant professor of Geology at the University of Illinois and Geologist 
for the Illinois Geological Survey since 1906. He has been a contributor 
of numerous scientific i)apers on geology and paleontology. He resides at 
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280 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

WATS02sr Lewis Savage, Amherst, '82, graduated from the Long Island 
College Hospital in 1885 and has made a specialty of gymnasimn training, 
athletics and physical development. From 1887 to 1890 he was medical di- 
rector of the Berkeley Athletic Club, Lyceum and School. ' Since 1890 he 
has been president and medical director of the Dr. Savage Physical Devel- 
opment Institute. From 1897 to 1903 he was director of the gymnasium at 
Columbia University. In 1895 he organized and has since been president of 
the New York Normal School of Physical Education. He organized the 
Physical Activities of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association and directed 
them from 1909 to 1913 and performed a similar service for the Carnegie 
Institute of Technology and the public schools in Pittsburgh. He has or- 
ganized physicial training departments in many schools and colleges. From 
1901 to 1903 he was president of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Physical Education. He resides at Mamaroneck, N. Y. 

RoLLiN Augustus Sawyer, Western Reserve, '51, graduated as saluta- 
torian. He graduated at the Union Theological Seminary in 1857 and en- 
tered the Presyterian ministry. He was pastor of the Westminster Church 
at Yonkers, the Second Church at Newark, Ohio, the Third Street Church 
at Dayton, Ohio, and at Irvington, N. Y. For seventeen years he has been 
a lecturer in the German Theological Seminary and for one year was its 
president. He has been moderator of the synods of Ohio, Cincinnati and 
New York. He resides at Montclair, N. J. He received the degree of D. D. 
from Western Reserve in 1872 and Litt. D. in 1911. Has been for many 
years associate and contributing editor of religious and church press. <l> B K. 

Alfred Moore Scales, North Carolina, '92, is a lawyer residing at 
Greensboro, N. C. He is vice president and general counsel of the South- 
ern Life and Trust Company, the North Carolina Trust Company and tlie 
Southern Stock Fire Insurance Company. He is one of the trustees of 
the University of North Carolina and chairman of its finance committee. 
He is also a trustee of the Peace Institute and the Southern Presbyterian 
College and is president of the Commission to amend the Constitution of 
the State of North Carolina. He has been a member of the State Senate 
and moderator of the Presbyterian Synod. 

*JuN'ius Irving Scales, North Carolina, '53, after leaving college be- 
came principal of a school at Leakesville, North Carolina. In the mean- 
time he studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced at Greens- 
boro, North Carolina. At the outbreak of the war he entered the Confed- 
erate army and advanced througli various ranks, becoming colonel of the 
30th Mississippi Infantry at the close of the war. He was a member of 



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the North Carolina Legislature from 1857 to 1858 aiui of tiie Nortli Car- 
olina Senate from 1876 to 1880. From 1876 to 1880 lie was attorney in 
North Carolina for the Richmond and Danville R. R. He died at New 
York in 1880. 

Nathaniki, Eldridge Scai.ks, North Carolina, '53, entered tlie Con- 
federate army at the outbreak of the war and became a major. He is now 
a civil engineer and contractor and resides at Salisbury, N. C. 

Charles Gallatin Schatzer, Wittenberg, '00, was a graduate student 
in geology at the University of Chicago, and is now professor of Geology 
and biology at Wittenberg College. He has also been instructor in General 
Biology at tiie laboratory of the Ohio State University during the sessions 
of 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914. He resides at Springfield, Ohio. 

Mortijieu Leo Sciiiff, Amherst, '96, after leaving college studied rail- 
road practice with the N. Y., Ontario & Western Railroad and the Great 
Northern Railroad, and then spent two years in Europe studying European 
hanking methods. Since 1900 he has been a partner in the banking firm of 
Kuhii, I>oel) & Co. in New York City. He is a director of numerous corpor- 
ations, including the Mercantile Trust Co., the United States Mortgage & 
Trust Co., the Fidelity Bank, and the Metropolitan Parks Association. He 
is trustee and secretary of the Provident Loan Association, treasurer of 
the Hebrew Technical Institute, and president of the Jewish Protectory 
and Aid Society. He is also trustee of the United Hebrew Charities and 
of the Deaf Mute Institution. He resides at Oyster Bay, N. Y. 

Andrew D. Schinuler, California, '83, attended tiie University of Wis- 
consin in 1882 and 1888. After his graduation he engaged in engineering 
work relating to electric railways. He was for some years general manager 
of the Pacific Electric & Los Angeles Interurban Railway Companies. Since 
1907 he has been general manager of the Northern Electric Railway Com- 
pany. He resides at San Francisco. 

Jacob John Schindler, Wisconsin, '89, has been a journalist ever 
since his graduation. From 1892 to 1896 he was on the editorial staff of 
the Milwaukee Journal, from 1896 to 1904 on the editorial staflf of 
the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from 1904 to 1911 he was managing editor of 
the St. Paul Dispatch and since 1911 managing editor of the Milwaukee 
Jotirnal. He resides at Milwaukee. 

*Emanuel Schmu), Michigan, '55, studied theology at the Lutheran 
Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., and entered the ministry of the German 
Lutheran church. He attended various German Universities from 1856 to 



282 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

J85T. In 1858 he became pastor of Zion's Church at Columbus, Ohio. From 
1858 to 1896 he was professor of History, Latin and Greek at Capitol Uni- 
versity, Columbus, Ohio, and during the same time was editor of the Ger- 
man Lutheran denominational journal called the Luther siche Kirchen 
Zeitung. He died at Columbus, Dec. 28, 1896. 

*CooPER Davis Schmitt^ Virginia, '84, graduated from Mercersburg 
College in 1879. From 1884 to 1889 he was professor of Mathematics at 
Pantops Academy, Va., and from 1889 to 1910 professor of Pure Math- 
ematics at the University of Tennessee. From 1896 to 1898 he was a 
statistician for the United States Department of Agriculture. He died in 
1910. 

George Scholl^ Wittenberg, '68, attended Miami University during 
1863 and 1864. He graduated with .first honors at Wittenberg, and gradu- 
ated at the Wittenberg Theological Seminary in 1869, and entered the min- 
istry of the Lutheran church. He has been pastor of Lutheran churches at 
New Philadelphia, Ohio, 1861-71; Altoona, Pa., 1671-74; Baltimore, Md., 
1874-84; Hanover, Pa., 1884-87. He was general secretary of the Board of 
Foreign Missions of the Lutheran church from 1887 to 1903 and retired on 
account of an injury received while traveling. He was business manager of 
the Franklin Square Hospital at Baltimore from 1907 to 1911. He was 
editor of the foreign department of the Lutheran Missionary Journal from 
1895 to 1901. He resides at Baltimore, Md. 

William Henry Schuerman^ Missouri, '86, graduated at the Uni- 
versity of Cincinnati in 1881 and studied at Johns Hopkins University 
during 1882 and 1883. From 1883 to 1885 he was an assistant in the 
physics department at the University of Missouri and from 1885 to 1888 
as assistant professor in that same department. From 1888 to 1893 he 
was enaged in engineering relating to water supply and irrigation in 
Kentucky and California. Since 1894 he has been professor of Civil En- 
gineering and since 1893 dean of the engineering department at Vander- 
bilt University. He is a member of the Engineering Association of the 
South, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, The 
American Railway Engineering Association and the American Society for 
Testing Materials. He resides at Nashville, Tenn. $ B K. 

Richard Edwin Schuh, Hanover, '82, graduated from Drew Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1885 and entered the ministry of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. He received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1894 
and Ph. D. from Hanover in 1899, and an honorary degree of A. M. from 




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Hanover 'S2 




CHAS. F. SCOTT 
Kansas '81 



FRJ\K IIAMIAXE SCOTT 283 

Hanover in 1885. From 1904. to 1907 he was professor of Biology in the 
Southwestern Pennsylvania Normal School, and since 1907 has been pro- 
fessor of Biology and Geology at Howard University, Washington, D. C. 
He is a meml)er of a number of learned societies and the author of scien- 
tific papers, especially on Marine Algae. 

*Aduiax Scott, Brown, '72, graduated in medicine from Boston Uni- 
versity in 1882. For a time he practiced medicine and tiien went to Europe 
and studied at several German universities, receiving a Ph. D. degree from 
the University of Bonn in 1893. From 1894 to 1905 he was professor of 
Germanic and Scandinavian Philosophy at Brown University. He died at 
Blackstone, R. I., in 190.5. $ B K. 

AxGELO Cyrus Scott, Kansas, '77, graduated from the Columbian Law 
School in 1885. From 1885 to 1897 he practiced law at lola, Kansas, and 
has also practiced law in Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma 
senate in 1895 and 189(). From 1897 to 1899 he was professor of P:;nglish 
at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and from 1899 to 
1908 was its president. Later he was dean of the Graduate School of Ep- 
worth University and is now dean of the Extension Department of the 
University of Oklahoma. He resides at Oklahoma City, Okla. 4> B K. 

Charles Frederick Scott, Kansas, '81, was a member of the Kansas 
Senate from 1892 to 1896 and was presidential elector in 1896. From 1891 
to 1901 he was a regent of the University of Kansas. From 1901 to 1911 
he was a member of congress. He is the author of "History of Allen 
and Woodson Counties," Kansas, and of three or four books of Travel. 
While a member of Congress he was for four years chairman of the com- 
mittee of Agriculture, and visited the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico and 
Panama in an official capacity. He was one of the five delegates from the 
United States to the International Institute of Agriculture, which met at 
Rome in 1911. He received the degree of M. S. from the University of 
Kansas in 1884, and of LL. D. from the Kansas State Agricultural College 
in 1910. He was director of pulilicity at Republican National Head- 
quarters during the campaign of 1912. He resides at lola, Kansas, where 
he publishes the DaUji Register. <I> B K. 

Frank Hajii.ixe Scott, Northwestern, '76, graduated and took his 
I>L. P. degree at the Union College of Law of Chicago in 1878. He has 
since been engaged in the general practice of law at Chicago. He is senior 
member of the firm of Scott, Bancroft & Ste])hens. He is a member of 
several liar ass;)ciatinns and manv clubs. He resides in Chicago. 



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*Harvey David Scott, DePauw, '50, studied law and settled at Terre 
Haute, Ind. From 1851 to 1853 he was prosecuting attorney of Vigo 
County, Ind.; from 1853 to 1855 a member of the Indiana Legislature and 
from 1855 to 1857 a member of Congress. From 1859 to 1862 he was 
treasurer of Vigo County and from 1869 to 1877 a member of the State 
Senate. He was judge of the Indiana Circuit Court for a number of 
years. He died August 3, 1891, at Los Angeles, Cal. 

Llewellyk Davis Scott, Randolph-Macon, '91, graduated and was 
professor of Latin at the Marion Military Institute of Alabama from 1891 
to 1894. He was associate principal of same from 1894 to 1907 and since 
1907 has been its principal and president. He resides at Atlanta, Ga. 

William Henry Scott, Ohio, '62, upon graduation became superintend- 
ent of schools at Athens, Ohio. In 1864 and 1865 he was principal of the 
preparatory school of Ohio University. He entered the ministry of the 
Methodist Episcopal church in 1864 and was pastor of churches at Chilli- 
cothe and Columbus, Ohio. He became professor of Greek at Ohio Univer- 
sity in 1869 and in 1872 professor of Philosophy and president of the Uni- 
versity, in which position he remained until in 1883, when he became presi- 
dent of Ohio State University and remained as such until 1895, when he re- 
signed the presidency, but accepted the chair of philosophy, which he 
now occupies. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1884 from Ohio and Ohio 
Wesleyan. He resides at Clintonville, Ohio. 

*WiLLiAM McKendkee Scott, Washington & Jefferson, '41, graduated 
at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846 and the next year became 
professor of Ancient Languages at Centre College. In 1854 he resigned his 
professorship and became pastor of the Presbyterian church at DanviUe, 
Ky. In 1855 he became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian church at Cin- 
cinnati and left there to become professor of Biblical Literature and 
Exegesis at the Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago, which 
position he held until his death, which occurred Dec. 22, 1861. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Centre College in 1856. He was the 
founder of the Princeton chapter and assisted in the foundation of the 
chapter at Centre College. 

*James Matlock Scovel, Hanover, '52, studied law and for many years 
practiced at Camden, N. J. He was a member of the New Jersey Legisla- 
ture in 1862 and 1863 and of the New Jersey Senate from 1863 to 1865 and 
was its speaker in 1864 and 1865. In 1861 he entered the Union army as 
colonel of the 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry and served for a little 
over a year. He died at Cape May, N. J., in 1904. 



WILLIAM AUOUTUS SELF 285 

TowNSEND ScuDDER, Columbia, '88, was admitted to the bar in 1899, 
For four years he was counsel to Queens County, New York. From 1899 
to 1901 and 1903 to 1905 he was a member of Congress and since 1907 has 
been a justice of the New York Supreme Court. He resides at Glen 
Head, L. I. 

Halleck Wager Seaman^ Iowa, '82, studied law and was admitted to 
the bar. He is a specialist in railroad law. He was commissioner of Iowa 
at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. He is president of the Manistee 
& Grand Rapids Railway Co., the Gary & Southern Traction Co., the Fink 
Smelters Co., the American Wire Fabrics Co., and the Lorain & West 
Virginia Railway Co. He resides in Clinton, Iowa, but has a Chicago 
office. 

William Grant Seaman, DePauw, '91, after graduation pursued ad- 
vanced studies at Boston University from 1893 to 1897 and in the last 
named year received the degree of Ph. D. He joined the New England 
Conference of the Methodist church and was pastor of churches at Sud- 
bury, Springfield and Salem, Mass. From 1904 to 1912 he was professor of 
Philosophy at DePauw University. Since 1912 he has been president of 
Dakota Wesleyan University at Mitchell, S. D. He received the degree of 
D. D, from DePauw in 1913. $ B K. 

Frederick Hanley Seares, California, '9.5, is an astronomer residing at 
Pasadena, Cal. From 1895 to 1899 he was a graduate student and Fellow at 
California. He then studied a year at the University of Berlin and another 
year at the University of Paris. From 1901 to 1909 he was professor of As- 
tronomy at the University of Missouri. Since 1909 he has been superintendent 
of the Computing Division at the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory. He is a 
member of numerous astronomical societies. He is the author of a "Prac- 
tical Astronomy for Engineers" and has made numerous contributions to as- 
tronomical journals. $ B K, S E, T B IT. 

George Edward Seay, Cumberland, '60, served in the Confederate 
army from 1861 to 1865 as private, first lieutenant and captain in the 2nd 
Tennessee Infantry and Cavalry. He was a member of the Tennessee 
Constitutional Convention of 1870. From 1878 to 1886 he was chancellor 
of the 6th Judicial Division of Tennessee and from 1886 to 1894 of the 8th 
Judicial Division. He then removed to Dallas, Texas, where he now re- 
sides and where he is practicing law. 

William Augutus Self, North Carolina, '86, studied law, was admitted 
to the bar and is practicing at Hickory, N. C. He was a member of the 



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North Carolina Legislature from 1903 to 1905 and a Democratic presidential 
elector in 1904. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventio^n 
of 1912. 

SivER SivERsox Serumgard, Minnesota, '90, graduated from the law 
department of the University of Minnesota in 1891 and was admitted 
to the bar. Since 1892 he has been editor of the Free Press at Devil's 
Lake, N. Dak. He was a member of the board of regents of the University 
of North Dakota. He resides at Devil's Lake, North Dakota. ^ B K. 

Davis Sessums^ Virginia, '78, before attending the University of Vir- 
ginia, received the M. A. degree from the University of the South. From 
1878 to 1882 he was headmaster of the grammar school of the University of 
the South. In 1882 he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal 
church. He was rector of Grace Church, Galveston, Texas, 1882 to 1883; 
Calvary Church, Memphis, Tenn., 1883 to 1887; Christ Church, New Or- 
leans, La., 1887 to 1891. In 1891 he was elected assistant Bishop of Lou- 
isiana, becoming bishop later in the same year. He resides in New Orleans. 

Joel Walker Shackelford. Washington, '72, left college before grad- 
uation and received his Ph.. B. degree from Cornell in 1872, being one of 
the first students to attend that University. He was the founder of the 
Cornell navy. He is president of a number of corporations engaged in the 
real estate and cattle raising business in Colorado. From 1882 to 1884 he 
was a member of the Colorado Legislature and from 1900 to 1906 president 
of the Board of Public Works at Denver, Colo. 

John Blasdel Shapleigh, Washington, '78, graduated in medicine 
from the St. Louis Medical College in 1881. He is a specialist on diseases 
of the ear. From 1886 to 1890 he was a lecturer on diseases of the ear at 
the St. Louis Medical College. From 1890 to 1895 he was clinical professor 
at that college and Washington University. From 1895 to 1912 he was pro- 
fessor of Otology at Washington University and since 1912 has been clin- 
ical professor of Otology at that institution. In 1901 and 1902 he was dean 
of the medical faculty at Washington University. He is a member of a 
number of learned professional societies and aural surgeon to St. Luke's 
Hospital in St. Louis, and at various times to many other hospitals. He 
resides at St. Louis. 

*SoLOMON A. Sharp^ Washington & Jefferson, '48, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar, but in 1850 he went to California and settled at San 
Francisco. From 1853 to 1855 he was city and county attorney and from 




WM. GRANT SEAMAN 
DePauw '91 




WILLIAM O. SHEPARD 
DePauw '85 



FRANK LUCIUS SHEP.IRDSOX 287 

1860 to 1862 was a member of tlie California Senate. He died at San Fran- 
cisco in 1878. 

Charles Eldhed Siiei.ton, Iowa Wesleyan, '79, studied law after his 
graduation and was admitted to the bar. He gave that up, however, and 
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and for two years 
was engaged in the work of organizing missionary schools in South America. 
He has been professor in a number of normal schools and was for six years 
superintendent of schools at Burlington, Iowa. He was at one time presi- 
dent of the Iowa Educational Association. He received the degree of LL. 
D. from Iowa Wesleyan University in 1902. From 1899 to 1910 he was 
president at Simpson College. Since 1910 he has been pastor of the 
Plymouth Congregational church at Scranton, Pa. 

William Orville Shepard, DePauw, '85, received the degree of S. T. 
B. in 1886 and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He 
received the degree of Ph. D. from Sj'racuse in 1895 and D. D. from De- 
Pauw in 1896, and LL. D. in 1912. He was elected a bishop of the church 
in 1912. Residence, Kansas City, Kans. 

Francis Wayland Shepardson, Denison, '82, graduated from Brown 
in 1883 and received a Ph. D. degree from Yale in 1892. From 1883 to 
1887 he was a teacher in a Seminary at Granville, Ohio. From 1887 to 1890 
he was editor of the Granville, Ohio, Times. Since 1892 he has been con- 
nected with the Universitj^ of Chicago, as a University Extension Assistant 
in History from 1893 to 1895, as an instructor from 1895 to 1897, as a pro- 
fessor from 1897 to 1901, as dean of the senior Colleges from 1904 to 1907, 
and as associate professor of American History since 1906. From 1897 
to 1904 he was also secretary to the president of the LTniversity. He was an 
editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune, 1906-10. His services to the Fra- 
ternity have been very numerous. He was a trustee of the Fraternity in 
1906 and 1907 and has been the general secretary since 1907. He was sec- 
retary of the Inter-Fraternity conference from 1909-1913 and chairman in 
1913-14. He is a member of a number of learned and patriotic societies, 
and a senator of the United Chapters of * B K for the term of 1913-19. 
<!> H K. 

Frank Lucius Shepardson, Brown, '83, taught school in different pri- 
vate schools from 1883 to 1894. From 1894 to 1895 he was principal of 
AVorcester Academy, and from 1896 to 1912 of Colgate Academy. 
Since 1912 he has been associate professor of Greek at Colgate and treas- 
urer of the University. He resides at Hamilton, N. Y. <I> B K. 



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*FuRMAx Sheppard, Princeton, '45, became a lawyer and practiced in 
Philadelphia. From 1868 to 1871 and from 1874 to 1877, he was the district 
attorney of Philadelphia. From 1884 to 1887 he was city solicitor. He was 
a trustee of Jefferson Medical College. He was twice nominated for the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, but declined the nomination. He was the 
author of "A Constitutional Text Book," and "The First Book of the Con- 
stitution." He died at Philadelphia Nov. 3, 1893. 

Frank Asbury Sherman, Dartmouth, '70, enlisted in the Union army 
in 1862 in the 4th Maine Volunteers. He lost an arm at the battle of the 
Wilderness and was discharged in 1865. In 1870-71 he was instructor in 
Mathematics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. From 1871 to 1911 he 
was professor of Mathematics in the Scientific department of Dartmouth 
College. He received the degree of M. S. from Dartmouth in 1875. He be- 
came professor emeritus in 1911. He resides at Hanover, N. H. 

Maurice Sinclair Sherman^ Dartmouth, '94, is the son of Prof. Frank 
A. Sherman, Dartmouth, '70. He is the editor of The Sjmngfield Union 
and resides at Springfield, Mass. 

*Charles Woodruff Shields, Princeton '44, graduated from the 
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1848, and the next year became pastor 
of a church at Hempstead, L. I. In 1850 he became pastor of the Second 
Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. In 1865 he gave up the active min- 
istry and became professor of the Harmony of Science and Revealed Re- 
ligion at Princeton, and retained the professorship until his death. In 
1901 he left the Presbyterian church as a result of a famous controversy 
over some of its doctrines and became an Episcopal clergyman. He was 
the author of "Religion and Science in Relation to Philosophy," "The Or- 
der of the Sciences," "The Historic Episcopate," "The Presbyterian Book 
of Common Prayer," "The United Church of the United States," "The Re- 
former of Geneva," "Scientific Evidences of Revealed Religion," and "The 
Final Philosophy." He received the degree of D. D. from Princeton in 
1861 and LL. D. from Columbia in 1871. He died at Princeton in 1904. 

John Franklin Shields, Pennsylvania State, '92, took a post-graduate 
course at the University of Pennsylvania. He was professor of mathe- 
matics at the Adelphi College, Brooklyn, from 1893 to 1898 and occupied 
a similar position at Pennsylvania State College from 1898 to 1899. Since 
1899 he has practiced law in Philadelphia. He has had charge of many 
large causes and is a director in various large corporations. He is a 
trustee of Pennsylvania State College and is the author of "The Necessity 
of Consent in Surgical Operations." 




FRANCIS W. SHEPARDSON 
Denison '82 




FRANK A. SHERMAN 
Dartmouth '70 



MARION DANIEL SHUTTER 289 

George Siiipi.ey, Randolph-Macon, '87, after graduation became an 
instructor of mathematics at Randolph-Macon. He then hecame professor 
of English at the Boys' Latin School in Baltimore and at the same time 
studied at Johns Hopkins, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1897. Since 
1897 he has been editor of the Baltimore American. He is a philologist 
and has written "The Genetive Case in Anglo-Saxon" and has contributed 
articles on philology to numerous publications. He is a member of the 
Simplified Spelling Board. He resides in Baltimore. * B K. 

Oliver Perry Shir as, Ohio, '53, graduated from the Yale Law School 
in 1856 and began the practice of law at Dubuque, Iowa, in that year. In 
1862 he entered the Union army as aide on the staff of General Herron 
and served in the Army of the Frontier in Missouri, Arkansas and Lou- 
isiana. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law at Du- 
buque. In 1882 he was appointed United States judge for the Northern 
District of Iowa, and served as such until 1903, when he retired. He is 
the author of a manual on the "Equity Practice in Circuit Courts of the 
United States." He has received the degree of LL. D. both from Ohio 
and Yale. Since leaving the bench he has been active in civic matters, 
being president of the public library, chairman of the park board, etc. He 
resides, at Dubuque, Iowa. 

*George Albert Shives, Wooster, '87, from 1892 to 1895 was editor-in- 
chief of the St. Louis Chronicle. From 1895 to 1913 he was vice president 
of the Blaine Thompson Company. He died at Cincinnati Feb. 5th, 1913. 

*JoHX William Siiowalter, Ohio, '63, after graduation studied law 
and then went to Yale, where he entered the class of '67 and graduated 
wit!) it. He removed to Chicago and began the practice of the law. He 
rapidly advanced in his profession and was appointed United States circuit 
judge for the Northern District of Illinois. He died in 1895. 

Marion Daniel Siiitter. Wooster, '76, graduated from the Baptist 
Theological Seminary at Chicago in 1881 and entered the ministry of the 
Baptist church as pastor of the Olivet Baptist church, Minneapolis. In 1886 
he changed his views and entered tlie Universalist church, becoming pastor 
of the First Church at Minneapolis. He was chairman of the Minneapolis 
Vice Commission from 1910 to 1911, and wrote the report of that body; is 
president of the Executive Board of Unity Social Settlement, which he estab- 
lished in 1898, and has been president of the Universalist General Conven- 
tion since 1911. He is the author of "Wit and Humor of the Bible," "Jus- 
tice and Mercy," "A Child of Nature," "Applied Evolution," and a "Life 



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of James Harvey Tuttle." He received the degree of D. D. from the Can- 
ton Theological Seminary in 1900. 

Wilbur Hexry Siebert, Ohio State, '88 and Harvard, '89, received his 
Master's degree from Harvard in 1890 and then studied for one year at 
the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin, Germany. In 1898 he became 
associate professor of European History and in 1902 professor of European 
History at Ohio State, a position he has since occupied. From 1902 to 1906 
he vi^as secretary of the faculty and in 1907-08 was dean of the College of 
Arts. In 1907-08 he was lecturer in History at Ohio Wesleyan. He was 
the first president of the Harvard Graduate Club and has long been the' 
president of the Godman Guild House, a social settlement in Columbus. 
He is a member of many learned societies. He is the author of "The Un- 
derground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom," "The Government of 
Ohio," and numerous contributions on the history of the American Loyal- 
ists. From 1892 to 1893 he was catalogue secretary of the Fraternity. From 
1893 to 1896 keeper of rolls, and from 1893 to 1895 member of the board 
of trustees. He resides at Columbus, Ohio. $ B K. 

Charles Peter Siegerfoos, Ohio State, '89, was assistant in Zoology at 
the Ohio State University from 1887 to 1891, and instructor in biology at 
the University of Virginia from 1891 to 1892. From 1895 to 1897 he was 
an assistant in Zoology and Embryology at Johns Hopkins and at the same 
time was a student, receiving his degree of Ph. D. in 1897. Since 1897 he 
has been professor of Zoology at the University of Minnesota. He is a 
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He 
was college secretary of the Fraternity from 1889 to 1891. He resides at 
Minneapolis. $ B K, 2 S. 

Edward Siegerfoos, Ohio State, '91, entered the U. S. army as second 
lieutenant in the 5th U. S. Infantry in 1891. He was an honor graduate 
of the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth in 1895. He 
was professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Min- 
nesota from 1905 to 1909 and while there studied law and received the 
degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. from the University of Minnesota. In 1912 
he was an instructor in the department of law in the Army Service School 
at Fort Leavenworth. He saw service in Cuba in 1898 and 1899 and in 
1906 and in the Phihppines from 1900 to 1908. He is now a major in the 
7th U. S. Infantry. 

Frederick Lester Sigmuxd, Wittenberg, '86, graduated from the IvUth- 
eran Theological Seminary at Wittenberg in 1890 and entered the ministry 
of the Evangelical Lutheran church. He has served various churches in 




WILBUR H. SIEBERT 
Ohio StatR '88 




JOHN R. SIMPSON 
Miami '99 



CIIJIiL/<:S X. SIMS 291 

Ohio and Illinois aiul in 1893 and 1894 was secretary of the Miami Evangel- 
ical I^utheran Synod. From 1900 to 1909 he was president and professor of 
Mental and Moral Philosoj)hy at Cartilage College, 111. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Wittenherg College in 1903. Since 1910 he has been sup- 
erintendent of tlie Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia. 

*WiLijAM Walteh Sillers, North Carolina, '59, after graduation be- 
came a farmer. At the outbreak of the war he entered tiie Confederate 
army in the Kith North Carolina Volunteers, and attained the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. He was killed in IStiB at Petersburg, \n. 

Ciiari.es Edmund Simox^ Johns Hopkins, '88, studied medicine at the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1888 and 1889 and graduated in medicine 
from the University of Maryland in 1890. Since 1891 he has been conduct- 
ing a clinical laboratory in Baltimore and has been a teacher of clinical 
laboratory methods to post-graduate students in medicine. He is the au- 
thor of ''Clinical Diagnosis," "Physiological Chemistry" and "Infection and 
Immunity." He is professor of Clinical Pathology and Experimental Med- 
icine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore. He resides 
in Baltimore. 

JoHX R. SiJiPsox, Miami, '99, after his graduation, entered tlie em- 
ploy of the Western Ellectric Company at Chicago, at the same time 
studying law. He later accepted a position as comptroller in the corpora- 
tion of William Filene & Sons' Company and is vice president and manager 
of its great department store in Boston. He has paid great attention to 
the theory and practice of business and is lecturer in the Graduate School 
of Business Administration at Harvard and the Tuck School of Adminis- 
tration and Finance at Dartmouth. He is president of the Junior Division 
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. He resides in Newtonville, Mass. 

*Chari,es N. Si.'ms, DePatiw, '.59, left college before graduation and 
became principal of the Thorntown y\cademy, 18.57-59. He was president 
of Valparaiso College 1860-62. He then entered actively into the ministry 
of the Methodist Episcopal church and was pastor of a number of churches 
in the central western states. In 1875 he declined the presidency of the 
Illinois Wesleyan University. From 1880 to 1893 he was chancellor or 
president of the University of Syracuse. He received the degree of A. M. 
from Ohio Wesleyan in 1860, D. D. from DePauw in 1870 and LE. D. from 
Wesleyan in 1881. He was a trustee of DePauw University from 1869 to 
1874. He was orator of the Fraternity convention of 1883. He died at Eib- 
ertv, Ind., in 1908. 



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*Thoimas Hexuy SineXj DePauw, '42, after graduation entered the 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, but devoted his life to edu- 
cational work. From 1849 to 1852 he was professor of Greek at DePauw 
and of Mathematics at the Asbury Female College. From 1856 to 1864 he 
was president of Albion College and from 1867 to 1876 president of the 
University of the Pacific. He then became the superintendent of Pacific 
Grove, California. He died there in 1898. 

*Thomas Chapeau Singletary, North Carolina, '59, studied law and 
was admitted to the bar at Greenville, North Carolina, in 1860. In 1861 he 
entered the Confederate armj' and became in turn adjutant and major of 
the 27th North Carolina Infantry and colonel of the 44th North Carolina 
Infantry. After the war he practiced law at Greenville and died there 
in 1873. 

Edward Octavius Sisson, Chicago, '93, was born in England, May 24th, 
1869, and came to America in 1882. He graduated from the Kansas State 
Agricultural College in 1886. He then taught school for five years. 
Entering the University of Chicago at its opening in 1892, he received the 
degree of A. B. in 1893, and did graduate work for some years thereafter. 
Meantime, in association with Ralph P. Smith, Denison, '88, he had founded 
the Southside Academy in 1892 and was in full charge of it from 1894 to 
1897. From 1897 to 1903 he was a director of the Bradley Polytechnic Insti- 
tute at Peoria, III. He then spent a year in Germany and a year at Har- 
vard, taking a Ph. D; degree at Harvard in 1905. He was assistant profes- 
sor of education in the University of Illinois in 1905 and 1906, head of the 
department of education at Washington State University from 1906 to 
1912, and professor of Education at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, during 
1912 and 1913. In July, 1913, he was chosen by the State Board of Edu- 
cation at Idaho to be the commissioner of education in the state. The State 
Board has full control of all educational affairs and institutions in Idaho 
and the commissioner is its chief executive officer. He has written "The Es- 
sentials of Character," published by the Macmillan Company, and has con- 
tributed to the Educational Review, The School Review, The Atlantic 
Monthly, Relif/lou.i Education, Popular Science, The Monthly Journal of 
Philosophy, and The International Journal of Ethics, and others. He re- 
sides at Boise, Idaho. 

Francis Hinckley Sisson, Knox, '92, Harvard, '93, after graduation 
engaged in newspaper worTs at Chicago and later at Galesburg, Ills., be- 
coming part owner and editor of the Galesburg Evening Mail. In 1903 he 
moved to New York and became attached to the staff of McClure's Maga- 




EDWARD O. SISSON 
Chicago '93 




FRANCIS H. SISSON 
Knox, '92; Harvard, '93 



ADDISON aiLLESPIE SMITH 293 

zine. In 1904 he became advertising manager for the American Real Es- 
tate Company and from 1908 to 1914 was its secretary. He is now vice 
president of the H. E. Lesan Advertising Agency of New York City. His 
services to the fraternity have been numerous and important. He was a 
member of the Board of Trustees in 1897-98 and 1907-08, general treasurer 
1898-99, general secretary 1899-1907, and president of tiie fraternity 1912- 
15. He resides at Park Hill, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Geokge Hamilton Sissox, DePauw, '(>(>, graduated in law at the Albany 
Law School in 1867. His practice has related largely to mining and trans- 
portation enterprises. In 1882 he was president of the Globe City, Colo., 
Mining company. He was one of the organizers of the Northwestern Coloni- 
zation and Improvement Co. of Chihuahua, Mexico, and president of the var- 
ious railway and mining companies auxiliary thereto. He is president of the 
Pacific & Gulf Steamship Co. and organized the International Company of 
Mexico and other corporations on the Pacific slope and in Mexico. He re- 
sides at San Francisco. 

Charles Edward Skinner, Oiiio State, '90, graduated with a degree of 
M. E. He has been with Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com- 
pany ever since. He was first doing insulation testing and designing and 
testing iron and steel; from 1902 to 190fi he was engineer of the insulation 
division and since 1906 has been engineer of the research division. His 
office is at East Pittsburgh, Pa. S S. 

Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Colgate, '83, was professor of Math- 
ematics at the Peddie Institute from 1883 to 1892. Since then he has 
been connected with the department of Mathematics at the University of 
Chicago, as an instructor and professor. He received the degree of Ph. 
D. from Chicago in 1898 and Sc. D. from Colgate in 1910. He is a fellow 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a mem- 
ber of American and foreign mathematical societies, and editor of the 
American Mathematical Monthly. He is- the author of text books on 
Algebra and Geometry, and editor of a series of text books on mathematics 
for schools and colleges. He resides at Chicago. <I> B K, 2 2. 

Addison Gillespie Smith, Cumberland, '73, was admitted to the bar in 
Alabama in 1873. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the Ala- 
bama Senate. From 1886 to 1891 he was prosecuting attorney for the 6th 
Judicial District of Alabama. He is a corporation specialist and counsel 
for the Mobile & Ohio 11. R., and the Alabama Great Southern R. R. He 
resides at Birmingham, Ala. 



294 BETAS OP ACHIEVEMENT 

*Arthur Arnold Smith, Knox, '53, after graduation studied law and 
began its practice at Galesburg, 111. From 1860 to 1862 he was a member 
of the Illinois Legislature. In 1862 he entered the United States army as 
lieutenant-colonel of the 83rd Ills. Volunteer Infantry. The next year he 
became its colonel and in 1865 he was breveted as a brigadier-general. 
Returning to Galesburg he resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 be- 
came judge of the 10th Illinois Judicial District, a position he held until 
his death in 1901. He was a trustee of Knox College from 1879 to 1901. 

Arthur Harms Smith, Wittenberg, '88, graduated from tlie theolog- 
ical department in 1891 and became a minister in the Lutheran church. 
From 1904 to 1908 he was assistant editor of the Lutheran World; from 
1909 to 1912, departmental editor on the Lutheran Church Work (month- 
ly). Since 1918 he has been an editorial contributor on the staff of the 
Lutheran Church, the weekly official organ of the Lutheran General 
Synod, and also editor of the Augsburg Adult Bible Class Quarterly. He 
is the author of "The Christian Home," "The Lutheran Church" and "Child 
Nurture." He received the degree of D. D. from Wittenberg in 1909. He 
was a member of the board of trustees of Wittenberg from 1899 to 1904 
and since 1908 and has been its secretary since 1913. He resides at Ash- 
land, Ohio. 

*AuGusTiTS I>EDYARn Smith, Wcslcyau, '54, was a teacher at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin from 1854 to 1856. He was editor of the Fond du Lac 
Union from 1858 to 1861. He was professor of Mathematics in the United 
States Naval Academy from 1861 to 1862. He then returned to Wisconsin, 
was a member of the Wisconsin Senate from 1866 to 1869 and a regent of 
the State University from 1869 to 1873. He was president of the First Nat- 
ional Bank of Appleton, Wis., and of the Appleton Edison Electric Co. He 
was trustee of Wesleyan from 1879 to 1895. He died at Appleton, Wis., 
in 1902. * B K. 

Benjamin Lyon Smith, Bethany, '78, received his A. M. degree in 
1886. He became a minister in the Christian Church and is now nat- 
ional corresponding secretary of the Home Missionary Work of that denom- 
ination and editor of the American Home Missionary. He is the author of a 
"Minister's Manual of Forms." He resides at Moberly, Mo. 

Benjamin Wilson Smith, DePauw, '55, immediately after his gradu- 
ation became professor of Ancient Languages at Cornell College, Iowa. 
From 1862 to 1864 he was professor of Ancient Languages at Valpariso 
College and from 1864 to 1867 president of that College. He was a member 



ERXBST JSHTOX SMITH 295 

of the Indiana I>egislature from 1883 to 1887 and from 1897 to 1899. He 
is a Methodist clergyman and resides at Indianapolis. 

*Chari,es Hexry Smith, Georgia, '48, after leaving college first engaged 
in mercantile pursuits and then studied law. When the war broke out he 
entered the Confederate army in the 3d Georgia Brigade and became a ma- 
jor. At the close of the war he began the practice of law, but was chiefly 
engaged in literary work. Under tiie pen name of "Bill Arp" he contributed 
weekly letters to the Atlanta Constitution and the Home and Farm of 
Louisville, Ky., for over thirty years. He was the author of "'Bill Arp's 
Letters," "Bill Arp's Scrap Book," "The Farm and Fireside," "A Side 
Show of the Southern Side of the War," "Fireside Sketches," "Georgia as a 
Colony and State." He was a member of the State Senate of Georgia in 
1866-67. He died at Cartersville, Ga., in 1903. He was an honorary member 
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 

CHARLES WitLiAM Smith, Kausas, '76, graduated in 1878 from the 
law department of the University of Michigan and has since practiced at 
Stockton, Kansas. He was county attorney of Rooks County, Kansas, 
from 1881 to 1884, city attorney for Stockton from 1882 to 1881, and 
mayor of the city in 1887 and 1888. From 1889 to 1906 he was a district 
judge. He has been president of the Kansas Bar Association and of the 
Kansas University Alumni Association and was a regent of the University 
from 1884 to 1888. <I> B K. 

Elmer William Smith, Colgate, '91, was assistant in the department 
of English at Colgate in 1891-2. He was a graduate student in the Uni- 
versity of Chicago in 1893. He was the head of the English Department 
in Colgate Academy from 1893 to 1908 and was a graduate student at 
Harvard in 1898 and 1899, receiving a Ph. D. degree in 1899. Since 1899 
he has been professor of Public Speaking and associate Professor of Lit- 
erature at Colgate University. He is the author of "Graded Exercises 
in Punctuation and the Use of Capitals" and "A Hand-book of Debate." 
He is editor of the EmjUsh Journal. He was president of the English 
Teachers' Association in 1907-08, chairman of the Committee on Oral Eng- 
lish for Public Speaking Conference of the Atlantic and New England 
States and a director of the National Council of English Teachers. He 
resides at Hamilton, N. Y. 

Ernest Ashtox Smith, Ohio Wesleyan, '88, Johns Hopkins, '98, re- 
ceived his Ph. D. degree from Johns Hojikins. He became a professor of 
History. In 1911 he was made assistant professor of History at Princeton 



296 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

and in 1913 professor of History and head of the department of History, 
Economics and Political Science at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. He 
is the author of "Diplomatic Contest for the Ohio Valley" and "The Cen- 
tury History of Allegheny College." He resides at Meadville, Pa. <l> B K. 

George McPhail Smith, Vanderbilt, '00, attended the University of 
Freiburg (in Baden) and received therefrom the degree of Ph. D. in 1903. 
In 1903-4 he vi^as instructor in Chemistry at the Michigan College of Mines, 
and in 1904-5 at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and the Me- 
chanic Arts. At present he is assistant professor of Chemistry at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois. He is the reviser (in collaboration with the author) of 
Noyes Elements of Qualitative Analysis, and he has written a large number 
of articles for the Technical Journals. He is a member of the American 
Chemical Society, the German Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He resides at 
Champaign, 111. Y A, 2 S. 

Harold Babbitt Smith^ Cornell, '91, was a graduate student at Cornell 
in 1891-92. In 1892 he was professor of Electrical Engineering at the Arkan- 
sas State University. In 1893 he was head designer and electrical en- 
gineer for the Elektron Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Mass. From 
1893 to 1896 he was professor of electrical engineering and director of the 
School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. Since 1896 he has 
been professor of Electrical Engineering and director of Electrical En- 
gineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Since 1904 he has been a 
consulting engineer with the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing 
Co. In 1904 he was chairman of the International Group Jury of Awards 
in Electrical Engineering at the St. Louis Exposition. He is a Fellow of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a member of a number of 
other professional societies. He has written many monographs and contri- 
butions to transactions of societies and engineering publications. <l> B K. 

*HENRy Martyx Smith, Washington & Jefferson, '51, after graduating 
studied theology at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. 
C, and graduating there in 1854 entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
church. In 1854 he returned to his home in New Orleans and became pas- 
tor of the Second Presbyterian church and in 1857 of the Third Presbyter- 
ian church, holding the latter pastorate until his death in 1894. During the 
war he was a post chaplain in the C. S. A., at first at Jackson, Miss., and 
afterwards at Shreveport, La. From 1863 to 1865 he was editor of the 
Army and Navy Messenger, and from 1866 to 1867 of the Presbyterian 
Index, and from 1869 to 1894 of the Southwestern Presbyterian. He was 



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moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South in 
1873-4. He received the degree of D. D. from Oakland College in 1866. He 
died at New Orleans in 1894. 

Hexky Monmouth Smith, Wesleyan, '91, from 1892 to 1893 was a 
chemist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station. From 1893 
to 1896 he was connected with the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. In 1896 to 1898 he was a student at Heidelberg University, receiving 
his Ph. D. degree therefrom in 1898. From 1899 to 1918 he was professor of 
Chemistry at the University of Syracuse. He is now on the Research staff 
of the Carnegie National I.al)oratory in Boston. * B K; 2) S. 

Howard Lesi.h: S,-mith, Wisconsin, '81, graduated from the law de- 
partment in 1885, having been some time studying in Europe. After 
graduation he began the practice of law at Madison, Wis., and subse- 
quently practiced at St. Paul and Chicago. Since 1900 he has been pro- 
fessor of law at the University of Wisconsin. <l> A 4>. 

Huntington Smith, Dartmouth, '78, is a journalist residing at Ded- 
ham, Mass. For some six years he was editor of the Daih/ Evening Trav- 
eler of Boston. He then became editor of the Literarii World and from 
1889 to 1903 was editor of the Beacon. 

J. Alt-en Smith, Missouri, '86, graduated from the Missouri Law 
School in 1887 and practiced law at Kansas City, Mo., until 1892, when 
he went to the University of Michigan and studied economics, graduating 
with the degree of Ph. D. in 1894. From 1895 to 1897 he was professor 
of Political Economy at Marietta and since 1897 luis been professor of 
Political and Social Science and dean of the graduate school of the Univer- 
sity of Washington. He is the author of "The Multiple Money Standard" 
and "The Spirit of American Government" and of articles on political and 
economic questions. He is a member of the executive council of The 
American Political Science Association. He resides at Seattle. 

James Smith, Washington & Jefferson, '57, resides at Topeka, Kan. He 
was 1st lieutenant and quartermaster of the 7th Kansas Cavalry in the 
Union army during the war. In 1866-67 he was a memlier of the lower 
house of the Kansas Legislature. From 1870 to 1874 was county clerk of 
Marshall County, Kansas, and from 1874 to 1878 the treasurer of the 
same county. From 1878 to 1884 he was secretary of state of Kansas, and 
from 1884 to 1892 private secretary to the governor of Kansas. 

James Perrin Smith, Vanderbilt, '86, graduated from Wofford College 
in 1884. From 1886 to 1890 he was an assistant geologist on the Arkansas 



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Geological Survej'. He then went to Germany receiving a Ph. D. from the 
University of Gottingen in 1892. Since 1892 he has been professor of 
Paleontology at Stanford University and since 1396 he has been also one of 
the geologists of the United States Geological Survey. 

John M. C. Sjiith, Michigan, '81, of Charlotte, Mich., studied law and 
was admitted to the bar and has also been a banker. Since 1910 he has 
been a member of Congress. 

*LtTTiiER Martix Smith, Emory, '48, became professor of Greek at 
Emory in 1850, serving until 1857. He was then for a time a professor at 
the Wesleyan Female College. During the war he served as cha^slain in the 
Confederate army. From 1867 to 1871 he was president of Emory College 
and fi-om 1875 to the time of his death in 1879 president of the Southern 
University, Greensboro, Ala. He received the degree of D. D. in 1867. 

*OsBORXE Lewis Smith, Emory, '43, after his graduation, studied 
theologj^ and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He 
became professor of Latin at Emory in 1846 and in 1851 professor of Greek. 
From 1860 to 1866 he was president of the Wesleyan Female College at Ma- 
con, Ga., the oldest college for women in the United States. From 1871 to 
1875 he was president of Emory College. He died in 1878 at Oxford, Ga. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Centenarj^ College in 1855. 

*RoiiERT Wii.sox Smith, Williams, '50, was salutatorian of his class. 
He removed to Rock Island, 111., and studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1852. He rapidly rose in his profession and from 1855 to 1860 
made a specialty of railroad law, being attorney for the Chicago and Rock 
Island R. R. from 1857 to 1859. He was a member of the Illinois Legis- 
lature from 1860 to 1862. He then entered the Union army as a captain in 
the 16th Illinois Cavalry, and was rapidly promoted until he was made 
brigadier-general of the 9th Army Corps and served to the end of the 
war. He then resumed the practice of law in Chicago. He was president 
of the fraternity conventions of 1869, 1878, 1879 and 1888 and was a 
member of the board of directors from 1885 to 1890. He died at Chicago 
in 1890. <I>BK. 

RuFus Wright Smith, Emory, '56, graduated with first honors. From 
1857 to 1865 he was principal of the Sparta Institute, Georgia. From 1865 
to 1866 he was engaged with the relief association of the Confederate army 
in Georgia in hospital work. From 1866 to 1872 he taught in a private 
academy in Georgia. From 1872 to 1879 he was a professor in Emory Col- 




JOHN M. C. SMITH 
Michigan '81 




WILLIAM C. SPRAGUE 
Denison '81 



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lege, from 1879 to 1885 lie was president of Dalton Female College and 
since 1885 lie has been president of LaGrange College, Georgia. 

*WiLLiAM Cahpenteu Smitii^ Minnesota, '90, engaged in railroad en- 
gineering. From 1890 to 1893 he was resident engineer of the St. Paul & 
Northern Railway. From 1893 to 1913 he was in the service of the North- 
ern Pacific Railway as assistant engineer at Diduth from 1893 to 1897; as 
assistant engineer at Jamestown, N. D., from 1897 to 1899, in charge of 
construction work from 1899 to 1902; division engineer at Livingston, 
Mont., to December, 1902; division engineer at St. Paul from 1902 to 1907 
and chief engineer of maintenance of way from 1907 until tiie time of his 
death. He died at St. Paul August 26, 1913. 

Wii.i.iAM Bhackett Sxow, Boston, '85, since his graduation has been 
connected with tiie English higii school at Boston and since 1905 has been 
head of its department of Modern Languages. In 1910 lie received a dec- 
oration from the French government. He resides at Stonehani, Mass. 
<I>BK. 

*Henry Snydek, Washington & JeflFerson, '38, was a student at Miami 
for a short time, and then removed to Jefferson College. He became pro- 
fessor of Mathematics at the latter place in 1841 and retained this posi- 
tion until 1850, when he accepted a professorship of Latin and History at 
Centre College, serving until 18.52, when he became professor of Mathe- 
matics at the same college. In 1857 he moved to Hampden-Sidney College, 
where lie became professor of Mathematics and remained until the out- 
break of the war in 1861, when he resigned and entered the Union army 
as a chaplain. He was drowned in New York harbor Feb. 22, 1866. 

Charles Leisskixg Sosimehs, Minnesota, '90, was class orator on class 
day and philosopiiical orator on commencement day. He is secretary of 
the corporation of G. Sommers & Company, wliolesale general merchan- 
dise. This firm issues and distributes monthly to dealers, twenty-five 
thousand 500-page catalogues. Since 1910 has been a member of the board 
of regents of the University of Minnesota. He resides at St. Paul. •I' B F\. 

Charles William SoiMMERVir.i.E, Hampden-Sidney, '90, received the 
degree of Bachelor of Science in 1891, and graduated from the Union 
Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian church in 1894. He was assist- 
ant professor of Latin and German at Hampden-Sidney from 1891 to 1896. 
He is professor of Biblical Languages in the Southwestern LTniversity at 
Clarksville, Tenn. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins 
in 1899, and of D. D. from Hampden-Sidney College in 1908. He is the 



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author of "Robert Goodloe Harper," "Public Worship," "The Bible in the 
Schools" and "Catholicity of Presbyterianism." He resides at Clarksville, 
Tenn. 

*Plixy Leland Soper, Kansas, '81, graduated from the Columbia Law 
School in 1887. From 1889 to 1894 he was an assistant United States at- 
torney for Kansas; from 1894 to 1897 he was attorney for the Indian 
Territory of the Santa Fe railway. From 1897 to 1905 he was United 
States attorney for the Northern District of Indian Territory. He was 
also for a number of years solicitor for the St. Louis & San Francisco R. 
R. Co. He was a delegate to several National Republican conventions and 
has been a member of the Republican National Committee. He died at 
Kansas City, Mo., April 26, 1913. $ A $. 

*FRA>rKLi>r SouLE, Wesleyan, '38, was editor of a newspaper at Wood- 
ville. Miss., from 1844 to 1848 and of the Evening Mercury of New Orleans 
from 1848 to 1849. He then moved to California and was the first editor 
of the Alta California. In 1853 he founded the California Chronicle, and 
was its editor until 1857, when he founded the San Francisco Times, of 
which he was the editor until 1861. He was a member of the California 
Senate from 1851 to 1853. From 1865 to 1870 he was United States Col- 
lector of Internal Revenue. He was editor of the San Francisco Call from 
1870 to 1872, and of the Alta California from 1872 to the time of his 
death, which occurred June 3, 1882. 

Oliver Lyman Spaulding, Jr., Michigan, '95, graduated in law in 
1896. He is a captain in the United States Field Artillery. As a lieuten- 
ant he served one year in Northwestern Alaska, took part in the China 
Relief expedition of 1900 and in the Philippine insurrection. In 1903 he 
was an honor graduate of the United States Artillery School and in 1905 
of the Army Staif College, and in 1911 of the Army War College. From 
1905 to 1908 he was instructor in the Army Service Schools and has held 
a similar position since 1913. He has published "Notes on Field Artillery" 
and "Battle Orders" (a translation from the German of Hans von Kies- 
ling) . At present he resides at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. <!> B K. 

Edward Ray Speahe, Boston, '94, is general manager of Alden Speare's 
Sons Company, one of the most prominent mercantile enterprises of Bos- 
ton. He is also a trustee of Boston University. He resides at Newton 

Centre, Mass. 

*Frederick Wir.LiAM Speirs, Johns Hopkins, '92, graduated at the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1888 and received his Ph. D. degree 



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from Johns Hopkins in 1896. From 1892 to 1893 lie was superintendent of 
the People's Institute at Milwaukee. From 1890 to 1893 he was professor 
of Economics at the University of South Dakota. From 1893 to 189.5 he 
was professor of Economics at the Drexel Institute, Philadeljihia. From 
1900 to 1906 he was editor of the Booklover'x Maf/azitic. He died in 1906. 

*Eliiiu Si'ENCEii, Wesleyan, '38, received an A. M. degree in 1841. He 
became clerk of the court of Middlesex county in 1843 and served for ten 
years, until 18-53. He was a member of the Connecticut Legislature from 
1844 to 1848 and 1850 to 1852, and in 1856 was presidential elector. He 
died at Middletown, Conn., in 1858. * B K. 

*\Vii.lia:m Brainahd Spexceii, Centenary, '55, graduated from the lav/ 
department of the University of Louisiana in 1857. From 1857 to 1861 he 
jiracticed law at Harrisonburg, La. In 1861 he entered the Confederate 
armv as a captain and was promoted until he was at the close of the war 
colonel of the 34th Louisiana Infantry. He then practiced law in New 
Orleans. He was a member of Congress from 1875 to 1877. He died at 
New Orleans in 1888. 

Geouge Lawrence Spixixo, Hanover, '67 graduated fr!)m tiie Mc- 
Cormick Theological Seminary in 1869 and became a Presbyterian clergy- 
man. He has served as pastor of churches in Cleveland, Ohio, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., and Cincinnati, and from 1906 to 1912 was pastor Emeritus of 
the First Presbyterian church of South Orange, N. J. During the war be 
served in the 7tb Kansas Cavalry in the Union army and afterwards served 
in the war with the Indians in 1865, having charge of the supply trains 
to the forts on the plains and in the mountains. He has become widely 
known for bis efforts in behalf of the Indian. He was offered a position 
of United States commissioner of Indians by President Cleveland, but de- 
clined. He was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance held at Lon- 
don in 1888. Since 1890 he has been a member of the Board of Home Mis- 
sions in the Presbyterian church and has been one of the trustees of the 
Lane Theological Seminary. He was president of the Fraternity conven- 
tion of 1866. He received the degree of D. D. from Highland University in 
1879. He resides at Pasadena, Cal. 

Parker Spofforu, Dartmouth, '65, is a civil engineer residing at Bucks- 
port, Maine. From 1883 to 1889 he was a member of the Maine Legislature, 
from 1891 to 1892 of the Governor's Council and from 1900 to 1909 of the 
State Board of R. R. Commissioners. 



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Charles Silvey Sprague^ Denison, '86, after graduation moved to Colo- 
rado. He was for a time a member of the Colorado Legislature and editor 
of the Rocky Mountain News at Denver. He is now president of the 
Charles S. Sprague & Co., at Goldfield, Nevada, and State Bank Commis- 
sioner of Nevada. 

Robert James Sprague, Boston, '97, attended Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity front! 1892 to 1895. He received an M. A. degree from Harvard in 
1899, Ph. D. from Boston in 1901. In 1906 he in%'^estigated the history of 
banking in Illinois for the Carnegie Institution. From 1901 to 1906 he was 
professor of Economics at Knox College and from 1906 to 1911 at the Uni- 
versity of Maine, and since then has been head of Division of Humanities 
and professor of Economics and Sociology at the Massachusetts Agricul- 
tural College. He resides at Amherst, Mass. <l> K $, $ B K. 

William Cyrus Sprague, Denison, '81, graduated from the Cincin- 
nati Law School in 1883 and was admitted to the bar the same year at 
Detroit. He was for a time president of the Sprague Publishing Co., the 
Sprague Correspondence School of Journalism and the Sprague Corres- 
pondence School of Law and has been a leader in the matter of teaching 
by correspondence. In 1895 and 1896 he was president of the Commercial 
Law League of America. In 1904 and 1905 he was president of the Ohio 
Society of Michigan. For some two years he was editor of the National 
Bankruptcy News. He has also been editor of the American Legal Nems, 
The Law Students' Helper and the juvenile magazine called The American 
Boy, and published "The Lawyers' International Blue Book." He is the 
author of "Sprague's Abridgment of Blackstone," "After dinner Speeches," 
"Wit and Wisdom," "Quiz Books in Law," "Three Boys in the Mountains," 
"Napoleon Bonaparte," "Felice Constant," "The Boy Courier of Napol- 
eon," "The Boy Pathfinder." He was one of the editors of the Beta Theta 
Pi in 1882 and 1883. He is now secretary of the Commercial Law League 
of America. He resides at Chicago. 

*WiLLiAM McKendree Sprixger, Illinois, '58, DePauw, '58, and Indi- 
ana, '58, became a lawyer, a journalist and a newspaper correspondent. 
He was secretary of the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1862 and an 
editor of the Illinois State Register from 1867 to 1869. He was a member 
of the Illinois Legislature in 1872. In 1875 he was elected to Congress and 
served twenty years, until 1895, becoming an experienced and prominent 
member, and a Democratic leader. He was the author of the Springer bill 
organizing the Territory of Oklahoma and of the bill admitting Montana 
and Utah and South Dakota as states into the LTnion. In 1895 upon leav- 




WILLIAM M. SPRINGER 
DePauw and Indiana '58 




EDWARD C. STOKES' 
Brown 'S3 



ALKXASDER XFAVTOX STARk' 303 

ing Congress, lie was appointed United States judge for the Xortiiern Dis- 
trict of Indian Territory and shortly after chief justice of the United 
States Court of Appeals for Indian Territory. In 1899 he resigned and 
returning to Washington, D. C, resinned his law practice. He died there 
in 1903. H'* was the founder of the chapter at Illinois College, Jackson- 
ville, 111. 

Charles Lewis Staffoiu), Iowa Wesleyau, '71, entered the active min- 
istry in the Methodist Episcopal church innnediately after his graduation 
and served as ])astor or presiding elder in the Iowa Conference for twenty 
years. From 1891 to 1899 he was president of Iowa Wesleyan University. 
He then re-entered the active ministry. He has many times been a delegate 
to the General Conference of the Methodist church and also served as its 
secretary. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in London in 
1901. He received the degree of D. D. from Upper Iowa Wesleyan in 1889, 
and liL. D. from Iowa Wesleyan in 190.5. He resides at Oskaloosa, Iowa. 

JoHX Wei.uox Stacg, Westminster, '8(), graduated from the South- 
western Presbyterian L^niversity in 1888 and entered the ministry of 
the Southern Presbyterian churcii. He served as pastor of churches at 
Nashville, Tenn.; Bowling Green, Ky. ; Charlotte, N. C, and Birmingham, 
Ala. From 1897 to 1903 he was a trustee of the General Assembly. Since 
1909 he has been president of the Presbyterian College of Alaliama. He 
is the author of "The Race Problem in the South," "Racial Ideals," etc. 
He received the degree of D. D. from Davidson College. He resides at 
Anniston, Ala. 

WiLi.iA:\t Aloxzo Staxtox, Hanover, '75, graduated from the Roch- 
ester Theological Seminary in 1878 and entered the ministry of the Bap- 
tist church. He has been pastor of churches at Muncie, Ind., Quincy, III., 
Pittsburgh, Pa., and Hightstown, N. J. He received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Chicago in 1886 and D. D. from Hanover in 1891. From 1893 to 
1898 he was editor of The Khuidom. He is the author of "Three Import- 
ant Movements," "The American Descendants of General Thomas Stanton 
of Connecticut," and "History of the First Baptist Church, Rockford, 
111." He is the author of many magazine and newspaper articles. He was 
a delegate to the World's Bajitist Congress at London, in 1905 and for 
seven jears was a member of the National Commission of Christian 
Stewardship. 

Alexander Newtox Stark, Virginia, '92, took an M. D. degree and 
joined the medical corps of the U. S. army and is at i)resent a major. 
His address is care of the War Department, Washington, D. C. 



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Edwin William Stephens^ Missouri, '70, was a member of the 
chapter of Zeta Phi, which became the Missouri chapter of the Fraternity. 
Since 1870 he has been the publisher and editor of the Columbia, Mo., 
Herald. He has taken great interest in religious work, especially that of 
the Baptist church. He has been president of the Missouri Y. M. C. A., 
moderator of the Missouri Baptist General Association, president of the 
Southern Baptist Convention and the General Baptist Convention of North 
America and a member of the executive committee of the Baptist World 
Alliance. He is president of the Tribune Printing Co. (Jefferson City, 
Mo.,) and of the Central Baptist Publishing Co. (St. Louis.) He is one 
of the curators of the University of Missouri and one of the trustees of 
Stephens College. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1905. He resides 
at Columbia, Mo. 

George Francis Stephens, Rutgers, '80, is a sculptor, manufacturer 
and lecturer on economic subjects. He was one of the founders of the 
village of Arden, Delaware, where he resides. He has been chiefly en- 
gaged in architectural sculpture and was at one time treasurer of the 
N. Y. Architectural Terra Cotta Company. He has lectured on the single 
tax theory for the University Extension Bureau and New York Board of 
Education and has been instructor in several art schools. 

George Ware Stephens, Iowa Wesleyan, '04, after his graduation was 
an instructor in Iowa Wesleyan. In 1911 he received the degree of Ph. D. 
from the University of Wisconsin. Since 1912 he has been professor of 
Economics at the University of Maine. 

Herbert Taylor Stephens, Ohio State, '88, Harvard, '93, studied at 
Adrian College after leaving Ohio State and received the degrees of Ph. 
B. in 1888 and A. B. in 1889. He also studied at the Boston University 
School of Theology, graduating in 1891. After leaving Harvard he en- 
tered the ministry of the Methodist Protestant church. In 1896 he be- 
came professor of Church History at Kansas City University, Kansas 
City, Kan. He has contributed to the church periodicals. He is the 
author of the Fraternity song, "Our Brotherhood." 

*James Patterson Sterrett, Washington & Jefferson, '45, gradu- 
ated at the head of his class and was at once appointed principal of the 
preparatory department of Jefferson College. During 1847 and 1848 he 
studied law at the University of Virginia and settled down to the prac- 
tice of his profession at Pittsburg. He was elected a trustee of Jefferson 
College and also of the Pennsylvania Female College and held these posi- 
tions until the date of his death. In 1862 he was made judge of the Court 



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of Common Pleas for the 5th Judicial District of Pennsylvania and served 
on that court for fifteen years, the last five of which he was presiding 
Judge. In 1877 he was made Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 
and held that postition until his death, which took ]>lace in 1901 at Phila- 
delphia. He received the degree of LI.. D. from Lafayette College in 1882. 

*Edwahd Bruce Stevens, Miami, '43, studied medicine and received 
his M. D. degree from the Medical College of Ohio in 1846. During the 
war he served as a surgeon in the Union army from 1861 to 1865. From 

1865 to 1873 he was professor of Materia Medica in the Miami Medical 
College and from 1873 to 1877 was professor of Medicine in Syracuse 
University. He received the degree of A. M. from Syracuse in 1877. From 

1866 to 1873 he was editor of the Lancet and Observer, and from 1878 to 
1883 of the Obntetrir (hizette. He died in 1896 at Lehanon, Ohio. He 
was the orjitor before the Fraternity convention of 1869. 

Wir.i.iAsr Francis Stevenson, Davidson, '85, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Cheraw, S. C. He was county attorney from 1888 to 
1890. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature and at one 
time its speaker. He is president of the Mechanics & Farmers Bank of 
Ciieraw, and of the Chesterfield & Lancaster R. R. He has been moderator 
of the Prebyterian Synod of South Carolina. He resides at Cheraw, S. C. 

Robert Stewart, Washington «& Jefferson, '59, is a United Presbyter- 
ian clergyman stationed at Sialkot, India, where he is president of the 
United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, a position he has occupied for 
many years. After leaving college, he attended the United Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., graduating in 1865. He at once 
entered upon his career as a missionary in India. He has written much 
and translated many books into tlie languages of India. For some six years, 
from 1872 to 1878, he was a professor in the Theological Seminary at New- 
burgh, N. Y. He received the degree of D. D. in 1875 and LL. D. from 
Westminster College in 1906. 

*RoBERT Ekin Stewart, Washington & Jefferson, '60, was a commence- 
ment orator. He at once entered the Union army and was lieutenant of the 
123d Pennsylvania Volunteers. In 1862 he was commissioned as major in the 
24th United States Volunteers (colored) and served until the close of the 
war. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He was a 
banker and was president of the National bank of Braddock, Pa., from 1882 
to 1910. He was public-spirited and took an active part in civil affairs, 
and was elected as district attorney for Allegheny county in 1904. He also 



306 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMKXr 

took a deep interest in educational work, serving on the local school board 
and also as president of the county public school directors' association. But 
Mr. Stewart's great interest was in the work of the United Presbyterian 
church. He was an elder in the First Braddock congregation for thirt}- 
tliree years, and the superintendent of the Sabbath school for twenty-seven 
years. A number of times he represented his presbytery in the General 
Assembly, and for thirty-five years was a member of the board of trustees 
of the General Assembly, and rendered very valuable service as the general 
attorney for the church. He was also the attorney of ijie Women's Mis- 
sionary Board. He was an important and very helpful member of the As- 
sembly's committee on the revision of the Book of Government and Wor- 
ship. He died March 30, 1910. 

*WiLLiA]M Davis Stewart, DePauw, '56, graduated as a physician 
from Louisville University in 1857. In 1861 he entered the Union army 
as a major and surgeon and served during the war, receiving the rank 
of lieutenant colonel at its close. He then entered the regular naval med- 
ical service and became major and surgeon at the United States Marine 
Hospital Service. He died at Vineyard Haven, Mass., in 1887. 

AiiTiiui! Alvohd Snr.ES, Texas, '94, was from 1894 to 1899 connected 
with the U. S. Geological Survey in various positions. In 1909 he was ap- 
pointed state levee and drainage commissioner of Texas. In 1912 this posi- 
tion was abolished and a state reclamation department was established and 
lie was appointed the head of it with the title of State Reclamation En- 
gineer. He resides at Austin, Texas. 

Theodoue Lamme Stiles, Ohio, '70, left college before graduation and 
went to Amherst where he graduated in 1871. He graduated at the Colum- 
Ibia Law School in 1872 and practiced law at Indianapolis, New York City 
and in Arizona. In 1887 he moved to Tacoma, Wash. He was a member of 
the Washington State Constitutional Convention of 1889 and chairman of the 
first Republican State Committee. From 1890 to 1895 he was a justice of 
the Supreme Court of Washington. He is now city attorney of Tacoma, 
where he resides. 

SuMMERi'iET.i) Sai'xders Stim,, Kausas, '81, graduated in law from 
Drake University in 1902 and received the degree of D. O. in 1887. He was 
the founder and president of the S. S. Still College of Osteopathy and is 
now professor of Descriptive Anatomy in the American School of Oste- 
opathy at Kirksville, Mo. 



GEOR(}l<: WASHlXdTOX W 11 IT FIE LI) STO.XE 307 

Paul Edwix STir,i,.-MAN, Micliigan, '91, lui.s Ijeen a iiieml)er of tlu" Liwa 
Legislature for three successive sessions and was its speal'jer in 1911. He 
is a journalist and resides at Jeiferson, Iowa. 

Joseph Osgood Stii.isox, Hanover, '71, graduated from tlie Miami 
Medical College with the degree of M. D. in 1873 and from the New York 
Ophthalmic and Aural Institute in 1874. He then studied ahroad at Vi- 
enna and Paris in 1875 and 1876. He is a specialist in diseases of the eye, 
ear, nose and throat and is eminent in his profession. He resides at In- 
dianapolis. He is professor of Opthalmology and Otology at tlie Central 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is consulting specialist at many 
hospitals and is a mcnd)er of many learned societies. 

J(a.aii:s) Bowman Stihi.ixg, Missouri,' '90, was valedictorian of iiis 
class. He studied law and hegan its practice in Memphis, Tenn. He then 
removed to Mississippi and located at Jackson. He was appointed attor- 
ney general of Mississippi in 1908 and resigned in 1910 to hec )me jiresident 
of the First National Bank of Jackson. He is also ^iresident of the Union 
Savings and Deposit Bank and of the Bank of Pickens, Miss. 

CiiARi.Ks Wii.i.iAM Stoddakt, Columbia, '00, was for a time assistant 
professor of soils at the University of Wisconsin. He has pulilislied many 
articles on technical subjects in the journal of the American Clieinical So- 
ciety and other periodicals. He is now professor of Agricultural Chem- 
istry at Pennsylvania State College. <i> B K, 2 S. 

Edwahd Caspah Stokes, Brown, '83, has been engaged in banking ever 
since his graduation from college, and is president of the Mechanics Nat- 
ional Bank at Trenton, N. J. From 1889 to 1898 he was city superintendent 
of public schools at Millville, N. J. From 1891 to 1892 he was a member of 
the New Jersey I^egislature. From 1892 to 1901 he was a member of the 
New Jersey Senate and was its presiding officer in 1895. From 1905 to 
1908 he was governor of New Jersey. He is president of the New Jersey 
Bankers' vVssociation. He resides at Millville, N. J. 

*George AVashingtox Whitfield Stoxe, Emory, '42, l>ecame a Metii- 
odist Episcopal clergyman, but devoted himself entirely to educational pur- 
suits. From 1854 to 1860 he was professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan 
Female College. At other times he was professor of Latin, Mathematics and 
the natural sciences at Emory College and for a number of years its vice 
president and treasurer. He received the degree of D. D. from Emory 
College and LL. D. from LaGrange College. He died August 30, 1889, at 
Oxford, Ga. 



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Wilbur Fisk Stone^ DePauw, '57, and Indiana, '57, received the degree 
of LL. B. from Indiana in 1858. At first he engaged in newspaper work as 
editor of the Evansville, Ind., Enquirer in 1858-59; the Omaha, Neb., Ne- 
braskian in 1859-60 and the Pueblo, Colo., Chieftain from 1860 to 1864. 
He was a member of the Colorado Legislature 1861-62, and 1864-65, 
and was United States district attorney from 1862 to 1866. He 
was the district attorney for the state from 1868 to 1871. He was a 
member of the Colorado Constitutional Convention of 1876 and chairman of 
its judiciary committee. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Colo- 
rado from 1877 to 1886 and of the criminal court of Denver from 1887 to 
1890. From 1891 to 1904 he was one of the judges of the United States 
Court of Mexican and Spanish land grant claims. He was the first gen- 
eral attorney of the Denver &* Rio Grande R. R. from 1872 to 1877 and 
negotiated the building of the Santa Fe road from Kansas to Colorado. He 
resides in Denver. 

Oscar Van Pelt Stout, Nebraska, '88, from 1897 to 1904 was assistant 
professor of civil engineering at the University of Nebraska, and since that 
date has been dean of the Engineering Department. He has also served as 
irrigation engineer for the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. He 
resides at Lincoln, Neb. 2 S, <l> B K. 

Ralph Emerson Stout, Kansas, '86, has been since 1905 managing 
editor of the Kansas City Star. He resides at Kansas City, Mo. 

Lewis Clintok Strang, Boston, '92, for some twelve years after his 
graduation was engaged in newspaper work, principally as a city editoc 
and dramatic critic on the Boston Journal and Evening News For a year 
he was editorial writer and dramatic critic for the Washington Times. 
Since 1904 he has been a Christian Science practitioner. He is author of 
"Famous Actresses of the Day" and "Famous Actors of the Day," each in 
two series. Also, "Prima Donnas and Soubrettes," "Celebrated Comedians 
of Light Opera," "Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century." He re- 
sides in E. Weymouth, Mass. 

*William Gay Strange, Virginia, '55, attended Hampden-Sidney 
College from 1850 to 1852. He was professor of Natural Philosophy and 
Chemistry at Richmond College from 1858 to 1861. When the Civil war 
broke out he entered the Confederate army as an ordnance officer and re- 
tained that position until 1863, when, upon the organization of the Con- 
federate States Naval Academy he was made a professor of Natural 
Science in that institution and served until the close of the war, holding 




WILBUR P. STONE 
DoPauw '57; Indiana '57 




HOWARD SUTHERLAND 
WestiTilnster '8Sl 



FRJXCIS HART STTART 30») 

the rank of lieutenant in the Confederate States navy. He was professor 
of Latin and Freneh at the Rollins Institute from 1866 to 1867; of 
French at Norwood College from 1868 to 1869 and of Natural Philosophy 
at the University of Kentucliy in 1869 and 1870. He then retired and be- 
came a farmer at AVest Hampton, Va., and died there in 1899. 

Georgi: Mai.coi.m Stratton, California, '88, tooit his A. M. degree at 
Yale in 1890. From 1890 to 1893 he was a Fellow in Psycliology at the 
University of California, and from 1893 to 1894 an instructor. From 1894 
to 1896 he was a student at the University of Leipzig, receiving his Ph. D. 
degree in 1896. From 1896 to 1904 he was successively an instructor, as- 
sistant professor and associate professor of Psychology at the University 
of California, and from 1899 to 1904 director of its Psychological Labora- 
tory. From 1904 to 1908 he was professor of Experimental Psychology and 
director of the laboratory at Johns Hopkins and since 1908 has been pro- 
fessor of Psychology at California. In 1908 he was president of the Amer- 
ican Psychological Association. He is the author of a work on "Experi- 
mental Psychology" and of one on "The Psychology of the Religious Life," 
besides various articles in scientific and other journals. <!> B K, 2 S- 

Riley Evaxs Strattox, Miami, '50, after leaving college in 1849 
without graduating, went to Oregon where he studied law. From 1852 to 
1854 he was prosecuting attorney for the 2nd Judicial District of Oregon 
and from 1859 to the time of his death, which occurred at Eugene City, 
Oregon, Dec. 26, 1866, he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon. 

*Hira:>[ Strong, Miami, '46, graduated in 1846 and received the de- 
gree of A. M. in 1849. He studied law and practiced at Dayton, Ohio. At 
the outbreak of the war he l)ecanie lieutenant-colonel of the 93rd Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry and later its colonel. He was mortally wounded at the 
battle of Chickamauga and died at Nashville Oct. 7, 1863. 

*Fraxcis Hart STrART, DePauw, '70, left college without graduating 
and took his A. B. degree at Dartmouth in 1871. He received tlie degree of 
A. M. from Hamilton in 1878, and M. D. from the Long Island College 
Hospital in 1873, and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., for the practice of his 
profession in which he was eminent. He was physician to St. Peter's Hos- 
pital 1874-76, surgeon and lecturer on Obstetrics at tlie Long Island Col- 
lege Hospital 1874-1 880, registrar of vital statistics for Brooklyn 1874-78, 
obstetrician at the Brooklyn Hospital from 1894 to 1910. He was a mem- 
ber of many medical societies, domestic and foreign ; ■ was at one time 
president of the American Academy of Medicine, aiul a fellow of the Brit- 



310 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

ish Medical Association. He was a contributor to many medical journals 
and books and translated Vierordt's Medical Diagnosis. He died in 1910. 

Thomas Jefferson" Stubbs, Virginia, '66, received his A. B. degree from 
William and Mary College in 1860 and his Master's degree from the same 
college in 1869. During the war he was a private in the 34th Virginia In- 
fantry in the Confederate army. From 1868 to 1869 he was principal of the 
grammar school at Williamsburg, Va., and from 1871 to 1872 of the White 
River Valley Institute. From 1872 to 1888 he was professor of Mathematics 
at Arkansas College and since 1888 has been professor of Mathematics at 
William and Mary College. Between 1876 and 1880 he was a member of the 
legislature of Arkansas. He is the author of "Early History of Arkansas" 
and is vice president of tlie Arkansas Historical Society. He received the 
degree of Ph. D. from Arkansas College in 1889. He resides at Williams- 
burg, Va. <I> B K. 

James Flynn Stutesman, Wabash, '84, was a member of the Indiana 
Legislature from 1895 to 1897 and 1901 to 1905. From 1908 to 1910 he was 
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to 
Bolivia. He is United States Commissioner General of the Commission to 
Central America and the West Indies, Panama-Pacific International Ex- 
position. He resides at Crawfordsville, Ind. 

*JoHK McPherrix SulijvaKj Washington & Jefferson, '43, was val- 
edictorian of his class. He studied law and was admitted to the bar at 
Butler, Pa., in 1845. He was clerk of the Pennsylvania senate from 1847 
to 1853 and deputy Secretary of State from 1855 to 18.58. From 1861 to 
1867 he was the chief clerk at the quartermaster general's office of the 
United States army. From 1867 to 1882 he was United States Internal 
Revenue Collector for the 23d District of Pennsylvania. He died at Butler, 
Pa., in 1896. 

(Thomas) Maddix Summers, Vanderbilt, '99, entered the consular ser- 
vice and was made vice and deputy consul general at Barcelona. In 1900 
he was at Madrid and in 1901 in the City of Mexico in connection with the 
Pan-American Congress. In 1904-05 he was at Madrid. In 1910 he was 
appointed charge d' affaires at La Paz, Bolivia. In 1911-13 he was consul 
at Belgrade and since tlien at Santos, Brazil. 

Howard Sutherland, Westminster, '89, after graduation edited a news- 
paper for a year. He was then offered a position with the census bureau at 
Washington and by successive promotions became chief of its largest divi- 
sion, and in the meantime studied law. In 1893 he moved to Elkins, W. Va. 



BO BKArREGARl) SWEKXHY 311 

He was a member of the West Virginia Senate from 1908 to 1912. Since 
1912 he has been a member of Congress, representing the state of West Vir- 
ginia at large. 

*JoHN Webstkr SrTiiEiti.Axn, Washington & Jefferson, \53, after his 
graduation moved to Missouri and l)ecame a school teaclier. From 1850 to 
1858 he was president of Jefferson, (Mo.), Female College and from 1858 
to 1861 of Pleasant Female College. From 1861 to 1864 he served as a pri- 
vate in the Union army. From 1864 to 1868 he was a member of the Mis- 
souri Legislature and from 1866 to 1870 a curator of the University of 
Missouri. From 1867 to 1875 he was land commissioner for the state of 
Missouri. He then engaged in the real estate business in St. Louis, where 
he died June 9, 1889. 

Robert Franklix Sutheri.axd, Toronto, '80, was a member of the 
local society which became the Toronto Chapter of the Fraternity. After 
his graduation he was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Toronto. In 
1899 be was Queen's counsel. From 1904 to 1907 he was a meml)er of the 
Dominion House of Parliament and during the last three years was 
speaker. Since 1907 lie has been a justice of the High Court of Ontario. He 
resides at Toronto. 

Henry Huntixgtox Swaix, Beloit, '84, from 1887 to 1895 was pro- 
fessor of Economics at Yankton College. In 1893 and 1896 he was a Fel- 
low at the University of Wisconsin and received the degree of Ph. D. 
therefrom in 1897. He was president of Montana State Normal College 
from 1901 to 1912 and since 1912 has been assistant State Superintendent 
of Public Education of Montana. He was vice president of the National 
Education Association in 1904-05, and president of the Montana State 
Teachers' Association in 1910. He represented Montana at the National 
Conference on Trusts and Combinations held in Chicago in 1899 at the 
International Conferences on State and Local Taxation held in Toronto in 
1908 and Louisville in 1909, and at the National City Federation Teachers' 
Visit to Europe in 1908-09. He is the author of "Economic Aspects of 
Railroad Receiverships" and "Civics for Montana Students." He resides at 
Helena, Mont. 

Bo (Beauregard) Sweexey, Cuml)erland, "88, graduated in law and 
began its practice at Denver, Colo. From 1893 to 1897 lie was a member 
of the Colorado legislature. He then moved to Seattle. He has several 
times represented his state in the Democratic National Conventions. In 
1914 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He resides at 
Washington, D. C. 



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Zachary Taylou Sweeney, DePauw, '71, entered the ministry of the 
Christian (Disciples) church in 1869, and was pastor at Paris, 111., from 
1869 to 1871, and at Columbus, Ind., from 1871 to 1896. Since 1897 he has 
been extensively occupied as a lecturer. From 1889 to 1893 he was Uijited 
States consul general at Constantinople. In 1893 he was apjaointed com- 
missioner of Turkey to the World's Fair at Chicago, and was a member of 
the advisory committee of the Congress of Religions in 1893. He was dec- 
orated with the order of Oamanieh. He served for a time as chancellor or 
president of Butler College. He is president of tlie American Christian 
Missionary Society's Commission on Foreign Relations and is a member of 
the Institute of Christian Philosophy in America and of the Victoria Insti- 
tute in London and of many learned societies. Since 1897 he has been state 
commissioner of fisheries and game for Indiana. He lias contributed much 
to the periodical press and is the author of "Under Ten Flags," "Pulpit 
Diagrams" and many official reports. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Butler in 1889. He is pastor of the Lenox Ave. Christian church in 
New York City. 

Goodwin Deloss Swezey, Beloit, '73, graduated at Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1880. From 1880 to 1894 he was a professor in Doane 
College. From 1894 to 1897 he was meteorologist at the United States Ex- 
perimental Station in Nebraska and since 1897 has been professor of As- 
tronomy and Meteorology at the University of Nebraska. From 1891 to 1901 
he was meterologist to the State Board of Agriculture at Nebraska. 
He is the author of "Practical Exercises in Astronomy, a Laboratory Man- 
ual," and "Elementary. Agriculture," "Catalogue of Wisconsin Plants," 
"Nebraska Flowering Plants," and prepared the annual reports on met- 
eorology for the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture from 1891 to 1901. 
He is a member of a number of learned societies. $ B K, 2 S. 

George Washington Switzer, DePauw, '81, immediately after grad- 
uation entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and served 
as pastor of many churches in Indiana, becoming presiding elder of the 
Lafayette District from 1903 to 1909. Since the last date he has been 
engaged largely in business. He is vice president of the American Na- 
tional Bank' at Lafayette, Ind., and a director of the Baker-Vawter Com- 
pany. He is a trustee of DePauw LTniversity. He received the degree of 
D. D. in 1900. He resides at La Fayette, Ind. 




JOriN G. TALBOT 
Naval Academy '65 




DAVID N. TALDMAX 
Union '93 



T 

Elmore Findlay Taggart, Wooster, '81, graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1883, and has been promoted until lie is at 
present lieutenant colonel of the 28th U. S. Infantry. 

Frank Taggart, Wooster, '74, Michigan, '77, graduated from the law 
School at the University of Michigan in 1877. From 1896 to 1901 he was 
judge of the Court of Common Pleas at Wooster. From 1901 to 1905 he 
was circuit judge of the 5th Ohio Circuit and since 1910 has been chief 
justice of the Circuit Court of Ohio. He resides at Wooster, Ohio. 

(William) Rush Taggart, Wooster, '71, graduated from tlie law de- 
partment of the University of Michigan in 1875. He is an eminent rail- 
road law specialist, and numbers among his clients the Pennsylvania Com- 
pany, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Wabash Railroad, the 
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and the Texas & Pacific Rail- 
road. He resides in New York City. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Wooster in 1900. 

* William Sullivan Taggart, Wesleyan, '49, entered upon a business 
career at Watertown, N. Y., where for many years lie was engaged in 
manufacturing and was interested in many local enterprises. He was pres- 
ident of the National Union Bank and other enterprises. He was a member 
of the New York I^egislature in 1859 and 1860; from 1863 to 1867 he was 
special surrogate and in 1868 and 1869 the regular surrogate of Jefferson 
county, N. Y. He died at Watertown in 1904. 

*JonN GuNXELL Talbot, Centre, '63, Naval Academy, '65, after his 
graduation at the Naval Academy rose to the rank of lieutenant. He was 
on the Steamer Saginaw, which in 1870 was cruising in the Pacific Ocean 
and was wrecked on Ocean Island. He vohmteered to command a boat 
party to go for assistance to the Sandwich Island, 1,400 miles away. On 
Dec. 19, 1870, he reached the Island of Kawai and was drowned while at- 
tempting to land in the surf. There is a memorial tablet to his memory 
on the walls of tiie chaj^el at the United States Naval Academy. 

David Newton Tallman, Union, '93, is president of the Dakota Devel- 
opment Company and of the Tallman Investment Company of Willmar. 
Minn. He is president of the following I)anks: State banks of Antler, Ban- 

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314 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

try, Bremen, Selz, Guthrie, Heimdal, Maxbass, Milroy, McGregor, Mc- 
Ville, Nanson, Newberg, Powers Lake, Simcoe, Tolna, Upham, Warwick, 
Wildrose, Wolford, Bank of New Rockford, First National Bank of 
Towner, First National Bank of Sheyenne, Rolette State Bank, all of North 
Dakota; Brady Banking Company, Collins Banking Company, Concord 
Banking Company, Dunkirk Banking Company, Dutton Banking Company, 
Havre National Bank and Security Bank of Plentywood, all of Montana. 
He is also president of the Northern Town & Land Co., that has platted 
nearly one hundred towns in the past few years in Dakota and Montana 
and president of the Powers Lake Realty Co. 

*Edward Allen Taxner, Illinois, '57, received his Master's degree in 

1860. From 1861 to 1865 he was professor of Latin in Pacific University; 
from 1865 to 1882 professor of Latin in Illinois College and from 1882 
to 1892 president of Illinois College. He died at Jacksonville, 111., Feb. 8, 
1892. He received the degree of D. D. from Illinois College in 1880. 

David Stanton Tappan^ Miami, '64, graduated first in his class. He 
graduated from the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., in 
1867 and entered the Presbyterian church. He has been pastor of churches 
at Chariton, Iowa, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Portsmouth, Ohio, and Circleville, 
Ohio. He taught school for a time and was president of Miami University 
from 1899 to 1902. He has been a trustee of Wooster and of Parsons Col- 
lege. He served as stated clerk of the Synod- of Iowa from 1882 to 1890 
and stated clerk of the Presbytery of Columbus from 1905 to 1914. He was 
a member of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of 1909 ; moderator of the Synod 
of Ohio in 1898. He has written a history of Presbyterianism in Ohio and 
many articles and sermons. He served as a private in the Union army in 

1861. He received the degree of A. M. from Miami in 1867 and from 
Wooster in 1878; D. D. from Lennox College in 1887 and LL. D. from 
Wooster in 1899. He resides at Los Angeles. 4" B K. 

John Stevenson Tarkington, DePauw, '52, studied law and has since 
practiced at Indianapolis. During the war he served for one year as 
captain of the 123d Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. He 
was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1864. From 1870 to 1872 he 
was a circuit judge. He is the author of two books, "The Hermit of 
Capri," and "The Auto-Orphan." He resides in Indianapolis. 

*George Washington Taylor, Virginia Military Institute, '72, was 
for many years a merchant at Norfolk, Va. During the Spanish war he 
was colonel of the Fourth Virginia U. S. Volunteers and inspector general 




LEON R. TAYLOK 
Denison '07 




EDWIN H. TERRELL, 
DePauw '71 



KDWLX HOLLAM) Tl^RliELI. 315 

of the Spanish-Americiin War Veterans. He died at Norfolk Sept. 11th, 
1911. 

Leon Iti'TiiKUKoiii) Taylor, Denison, '07. studied law and was admitted 
to the bar and settled down to practice at Asbury Park, N. J. He soon be- 
came interested in politics and was elected to the Legislature of New Jer- 
sey for three terms. In 1913 he was elected speaker of the Assembly. When 
Gov. Fielder of that state resigned in October, 1913, lie automatically be- 
came governor, serving until Jan. 20, 1914. He is the youngest person who 
ever served as governor of New Jersey. He resides at Avon, N. J. 

William Henry Taylor, Dartmouth, '8(5, is a lawyer residing at 
Hardwick, Vt. From 1894 to 1898 he was district attorney. In 1900 he 
M'as a member of the lower house of the State Legislature and in 1906 of 
the upper house. From 1906 to 1913 he was a judge of the Superior Court 
of Vermont and since 1918 a justice of the Supreme Court of that state. 

Samuel Moore Templetox, Trinity, '81, became a minister in the Cum- 
berland Presbyterian church. From 1881 to 1884 lie was professor of Math- 
ematics at Trinity. In 1902 he was moderator of the General yVssembly of 
the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He resides at Clarksville, Texas. 

Gun Templin, Kansas, '86, received his degree of M. S. in 1889. From 
1886 to 1890 he was instructor in mathematics at the L^niversity of Kan- 
sas, from 1890 to 1903 he was professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy 
and since then has been dean of th? college. He resides at Lawrence, Kan. 

*Edwix Holland Terrell. DePauw, '71, graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1873, practiced law at Indianapolis imtil 1877 and then re- 
moved to San Antonio, Texas. He was a delegate to the National Repub- 
lican Conventions of 1880, 1888 and 1904, and a member of the Republican 
State Committee of Texas for many years. He was United States minister 
to Belgium from 1889 to 1893. He was plenipotentiary to the slave trade 
conference at Brussels in .1889-90 and to the customs tariff conference of 
1890. He acted for the United States in the negotiations resulting in the 
organization of the Congo Free State, and he was delegate to and vice 
president of the International Monetary Conference lield in Brussels in 
1892. In 1893 he was appointed a grand officer of the Order of Leopold by 
the King of Belgium. He received the degree of LL. D. from DePauw in 
1892. He took a great interest in the work of the Fraternity. He was one 
of the editors of the Fraternity catalogue of 1881, vice president of the 
convention of 1881 aiul president of the convention of 1884. He died at 
San Antonio in 1910. 



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Arthur Thayer, DePauw, '84, did not graduate. He is a major of 
cavalry in the United States army and his address is care of the War 
Department, Washington, D. C. 

Wilbur Pattersox Thirkield, Ohio Wesleyan, '76, graduated from the 
School of Theology of Boston University in 1881 with the degree of S. T. B. 
and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was pres- 
ident of the Gammon Theological Seminary from 1883 to 1899. In 1899 and 
1900 he was general secretary of the Epworth League. From 1900 to 1906 
he was general secretary of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational 
Society. From 1906 to 1912 he was president of Howard University at 
Washington and since 1912 has been a bishop of the church. He received 
the degree of D. D. from Emory College in 1889 and Ohio Wesleyan in 1889 
and LL. D. from Ohio Wesleyan in 1906. He resides at New Orleans. 

Alfred Pembroke Thom, Richmond, '72, Virginia, '76, is a lawyer re- 
siding at Washington, D. C. From 1891 to 1894 he was receiver of the At- 
lantic and Nashville Railroad Company and from 1894 to 1899 was its gen- 
eral counsel. Since 1905 he has been general counsel at Washington of the 
Southern Railway Company. He was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of Virginia in 1901-02. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
Washington and Lee in 1913. $ B K. 

*Edward Lloyd Thomas, Emory, '46, entered the United States 
army as a volunteer and became a lieutenant during the Mexican war. 
He then entered the regular army and in 1861 was a captain. At the 
outbreak of the war he resigned and entered the Confederate army as 
colonel of the 8th Georgia Infantry. During the war he rose to be a 
brigadier-general. After the war he was in business at Atlanta, Ga. From 
1892 to 1896 he was an Indian agent in the employ of the Department of the 
Interior. He died in 1903. 

Cyrus Thompsox, Randolph-Macon, '77, Virginia, '77, graduated from 
the medical department of the University of Louisiana in 1878. He is a 
farmer and resides at Jacksonville, N. C. He was a member of the North 
Carolina Legislature in 1883 and 1884, of the North Carolina Senate in 
1885 and 1886, and secretary of state of North Carolina from 1897 to 1901. 
He was superintendent of health for North Carolina from 1905 to 1911. He 
was at one time president of the North Carolina State Farmers' Alliance, 
He has twice received a complimentary vote for L^nited States senator. 



EDWARD THOMSOX 317 

*Daviu Wallace Thojipson, Illinois, 'C2, was a manufacturer resid- 
ing in Chicago. He was a well known inventor and invented the first elec- 
trical self-winding clock. In 1873 and 1874 he was editor of the Chi- 
cago Artisan. In 1861 he was in the Union army as a private in the 
lOtii Illinois Infantry. He died at Chicago May 2, 1911. 

*James TiiOMPsox, Indiana, '51, graduated at the West Point Mili- 
tary Academy in 1851 and became a second lieutenant of artillery. Fron> 
1854 to 1857 he was professor of Mathematics at the United States Mili- 
tary Academy. In 1861 he was promoted for gallant conduct to the posi- 
tion of captain. In 1862 he was made brevet major for gallant conduct 
at the battle of Glendale. In 1863 he was promoted to the position of lieu- 
tenant-colonel for gallant conduct at the battle of Chickamauga. From 
1866 to 1870 he was commissioner of education for Tennessee. From 1870 
to 1876 he was professor of Military Science and Civil Engineering at the 
University of Indiana. He then retired from the army and resided at New- 
port, R. I., where he died Feb. 18, 1880. 

John Talifehro Thompson, Indiana, '81, graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1882 and entered the army as a second 
lieutenant of artillery. He also took the courses of study at The Tor- 
pedo School at Willits Point, N. Y., and at the Artillery School at Fort 
Monroe, Virginia. In 1890 he was transferred to the Ordnance Depart- 
ment and has been connected with it for twenty-three years, on inspec- 
tion duty at arsenals, as assistant to the instructor of Ordnance and 
Gunnery at West Point and as chief ordnance officer of the Department 
of the Platte and Missouri prior to the Spanish war. On the outbreak 
of the war, he was appointed chief ordnance officer of the forces in 
Florida and later chief ordnance officer of the Fourth Army Corps. 
After the war, he became identified with the Equipment of Mounted and 
Foot Soldiers and small arms, and has been active in the development of 
the automatic rifle. He is now senior assistant to the chief of ordnance 
at Washington. He is a member of the executive committee of the Nat- 
tional Rifle Association. He is the author of "The Art of Designing and 
Constructing Small Arms," and "Modern Weapons of War." He con- 
tributed the article, "American Small Arms" to the Encyclopaedia Brit- 
tanica. He now holds the rank of lieutenant-colonel and resides at Wash- 
ington. 

Edward Thomson, Ohio Wesleyan, '69, graduated at the Garrett The- 
ological Seminary in 1881 and became a clergyman in the Methodist Epis- 



318 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

copal church. Previous to that time he had been professor of Chemistry at 
Baldwin University from 1872 to 1875. From 1879 to 1883 he was president 
of the Nebraska Conference Seminary. From 1883 to 1886 he was president 
of York College, and from 1886 to 1893 of Mallalieu College. From 1893 to 
1899 he was vice president of the University of Southern California and sec- 
retary for the Pacific Coast of the American Sabbath Union. From 1907 to 1910 
he was president of Arlington Heights College for Women. Since 1910 he 
has been a lecturer on the question of Sunday Observance and editing the 
Sunday Question. He is the author of "Life of Bishop Thomson," "Latin 
Pronunciation." He received the degree of Ph. D. from Cornell in 1882 and 
LL. D. from York College in 1886. He resides at Arlington Heights, Ft. 
Worth, Texas. 

Reginald Heber Thomson^ Hanover, '77, moved to California in 
1877 and taught school for a time and then engaged in practice as a civil 
engineer and surveyor. In 1881 he moved to Seattle, Wash., and after 
two years was assistant city surveyor and resigned to become local en- 
gineer for the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway; afterwards be- 
coming a resident engineer for that railway at Spokane. Since 1892 he has 
been city engineer of Seattle and as such has undertaken the work of 
levelling the city, a gigantic undertaking which was long regarded as im- 
possible. He is consulting engineer of Tacoma, Wash., and Rupert, B. C. 
He resides at Victocia, B. C. 

Charles Lewis Thornburg, Vanderbilt, '81, graduated in civil en- 
gineering in 1883 and received a Ph. D. degree in 1884. From 1884 to 1888 
he was instructor in Engineering at Vanderbilt. From 1888 to 1895 he was 
adjunct professor of Engineering and Astronomy at Vanderbilt. Since 
1895 he has been professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Lehigh, and 
since 1900 secretary of the faculty. He was president of the Vanderbilt 
Alumni Association in 1884 and 1885. He was president of the Fraternity 
convention of 1889, a member of the board of trustees of the Fraternity 
from 1893 to 1894, and 1897 to 1898, and general treasurer of the Fraternity 
and a member of the executive committee from 1892 to 1897. He resides at 
South Bethlemhem, Pa. * B K, T B n. 

Robert Montgomery Thornburgh, Dartmouth, '95, graduated in the 
medical department and entered the United States army as a, surgeon. He 
is now a colonel in the medical corps. 

*Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Wesleyan, '37, was editor of the "Spirit of 
the Times" and of "Forest and Stream" at New York for some years. In 
1861 he enlisted in the Union army as a colonel of volunteers and served 



MrLAXE TILTO.y. JR. 319 

for three years. He was a])poiiite(l surveyor of the Port of New Orleans 
by General Butler in 18(i3. He was an author of note and somewhat of an 
artist. He wrote "Tom Owen," "Mysteries of the Backwoods," "Our Army 
on the Rio Grande," "The Hive of the Bee Hunter," "Remembrances of the 
Mississippi," and was a contributor to a number of encyclopedias and simi- 
lar works of reference. He died Sept. 21, 1878. 

*Gates Phillips Thruston, Miami, '55, was valedictorian of his class. 
He studied law after leaving college and graduated with the degree of LL. 
B. from the Cincinnati Law School in 1859. He became captain of the 1st 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U. S. A., in 1861 and rose successively through 
the ranks of lieutenant-colonel, colonel and assistant adjutant-general to 
be brigadier general, and judge advocate of the Army of the Cumberland. 
After the war, he settled in Nashville, Tenn., and devoted himself to the 
piactice of law. He was president of the State Insurance Company from 
1884 to 1912. He was much interested in archaeology and was a member 
or various organizations devoted to that science. He was the author of a 
work on the Antiquities of Tennessee. He was vice president of the His- 
torical Society of Tennessee and a Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science. He received the degree of L. H. D. from 
Miami. He died at Nashville in December, 1912. 

Herbert Thorndike Tiffany, Johns Hopkins, '82, gradiiated from 
the law department of the University of Maryland in 1885. He is a lec- 
turer in the law school of the University of Maryland. He is the author of 
"The Law of Real Property" and "Landlord and Tenant." He resides at 
Baltimore. 

Bexjamin Franklix Tillingiiast, Monmouth, '70, was editor of the 
Moline Review from 1872 to 1877, city editor of the Davenport Gazette 
from 1877 to 1883, and editor of the Davenport Democrat from 1883 to 
1909. He was a delegate from the LTnited States to the International Red 
Cross conference at St. Petersburg in 1902. He is the author of "The 
Rock Island Arsenal in Peace and War," and "Three Cities." He resides 
at Crescent City, Fla. 

McI/Ane Tiltox, Jr., Virginia, "96, graduated in law from the Univer- 
sity of Michigan in 1900 and became a banker. He organized and became 
the president of the National Bank of Pell City, Ala., in 1902, and of the 
National Bank of Lincoln, Ala., in 1909. He is also president of the 
National Bank of Childersberg, Ala., and of the Bankers' Investment 
Company. He is a member of the executive council of the American 
Bankers' Association. He resides at Pell Citv, Ala. 



320 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Frederick Monroe Tisdel, Northwestern, '91, received an A. M. de- 
gree from the University of Wisconsin in 1893 and from Harvard in 1894. 
He received a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1900. From 1891 to 1893 he was 
instructor of Elocution at the University of Wisconsin. From 1895 to 1898 
he was associate professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Oberlin College. 
From 1900 to 1904 he was professor of English at the Armour Institute of 
Technology, and from 1904 to 1908 was president of the University of Wy- 
oming. From 1909 to 1910 he was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences 
and professor of English at the University of Toledo, Ohio. Since 1911 he 
has been professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the au- 
thor of "Studies in the English Classics," and "Studies in Literature." 
He resides at Columbia, Mo. <l> B K. 

Herbert Cushing Toi.man, Yale, '88, was a Berkeley and Earned fel- 
low at Yale from 1888 to 1891, and received the degree of Ph. D. from Yale 
in 1890. After his graduation, he studied at the Universities of Berlin and 
Munich. From 1891 to 1892 he was instructor of Latin at the University 
of Wisconsin, and from 1892 to 1898, assistant professor of Sanskrit at 
that University. In 1893 and 1894 he was professor of Sanskrit and 
acting professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina. Since 1894 
he has been professor of Greek at Vanderbilt, and since 1914 dean of the 
Academic Department. He was elected president of Hobart College 
in 1913, but declined. He was a member of the Congress of Arts and 
Sciences at St. Louis in 1904, and of archaeology at Athens, Greece, 
in 1905. He is the author of numerous text books, monographs and 
pamphlets on classical and Oriental Philology and Linguistic Topics, among 
others the following: "Harper and Tolman's Caesar's Gallic War," "Tol- 
man's Persian Inscriptions," "Kerr and Tolman's Greek Gospel of Mat- 
thew/' "Harrington and Tolman's Greek and Roman Mythology," "Tol- 
man's and Stevenson's Herodotus and the Empires of the East," "Art of 
Translating," "Urbs Beata," "Mycenaen Troy," "Via Crucis," "Ancient 
Persian Lexicon and Texts," "Ancient Persian Language and Cuneiform 
Supplement," and is the editor of the Vanderbilt Oriental Series (seven 
volumes), and associate editor of "World's Progress" (ten volumes). He 
has been honorary canon of All Saints Cathedral, Milwaukee, since 1904, 
and elected member of the Royal Asiatici Society in 1893. During summers 
he has been in charge of Holy Trinity Church, New York City, the Ameri- 
can Church in Munich, Christ Church, Lucerne, and a special preacher at 
Trinity Church, New York City. He was lecturer to the Archaeological In- 
stitute of America in 1911 and 1912. The University of Nashville, Peabody 
College, conferred on him the honorary degree of D. D. in 1901, Hobart 




WILBUR P. THIRKIELD 
Ohio Wesleyan '76 




HERBERT C TOI.MAN 
Yale 'SS 



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College tliat of S. T. I), in 1913, and the University of Nebrasi^a tiiat of 
LL. D. in 1914. He resides at Nashville, Tenn. * B K. 

William Howe Tolman, Brown, '82, attended Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity and received the degree of Ph. D. in 1891. From 1894 to 1898 he was 
general agent of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the 
Poor. He is secretary of the Improved Housing Council of New York and 
founder and director of the American Museum of Safety and Sanitation. 
He is an eminent social economist and has received a number of foreign 
decorations for his work in this field, among others he is a Chevelier of 
the Legion of Honor of France, of the Order of Leopold in Belgium, 
an officer of the Prussian Crown, and a Knight of the Royal Order 
of the Crown of Austria. He is the author of a "History of Higher 
Education in Rhode Island," "Municipal Reform Movements in the United 
States," "Handbook of Sociological Reference for New York City," "Better 
New York," and "Social Engineering," and of many articles relating to 
matters of social economy. He was commissioner general of the American 
Section of the International Book and Paper Exposition at Paris in 1897, 
and is a member of a large number of learned societies relating to his spe- 
cial field of work. 

*Clinton Samuel Tomlinson, Northwestern, '86, from 1886 to 1889 
was editor of the Republican at Boone, Iowa, and from 1889 to 1892 of 
the Daily Republican at Springfield, Mo. From 1893 to 1904 he was editor 
of the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. He died at Chicago in 1904. <l> B K. 

Deloss Monroe Tompkins, Northwestern, '77, entered the ministry or 
the Methodist Episcopal church and began his work as principal of a high 
school for boys at Mussori, India. Soon afterwards he became president of 
the Naini Tal College, India. He is a specialist in studies relating to com- 
parative religion. Since 1894 he has been in the active ministry of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church and has filled several pastorates in the Rock River 
Conference, Illinois. He is the author of "The Best Hundred Books for a 
Pastor's Library," "Vest Pocket Commentary on International Sunday 
School Lessons," "Browning as a Spiritual Teacher." He resides at Clear 
Lake, Wis. 4> B K. 

Jay Linn Torrey, Missouri, '75, practiced law in St. Louis twenty 
years. He is now proprietor of the Fruitville Farms at Fruitville, Mo. 
He was author of the present bankruptcy law and labored for its enact- 
ment fourteen years. During the war with Spain he was colonel of the 
2nd United States Volunteer Cavalry, known as "Torrey's Rough Riders." 



322 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

James Eaton Tower^ Amherst, '85, became a journalist and settled in 
Springfield, Mass., where he did editorial work for the Orange Judd and 
Phelps Publishing Companies. For a number of years he has been the 
editor of Good Housekeeping and is now located in New York City. 

*Daniel Alexander Townsend, Davidson, '58, during the early part 
of the Civil war served in the Confederate army, and left the service as 
major of the Fourth South Carolina Infantry. In 1892 he was elected 
attorney general of South Carolina and served for a year, leaving that 
office to accept a position as judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, a po- 
sition which he held for three terms. He died July 11th, 1911, at his 
home at Union, S. C. 

*Hosea Townsend, Western Reserve, '64, interrupted his college 
course to serve in the Union army. He studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1866 and moved to Memphis, Tenn. From 1869 to 1872 he 
was a member of the Tennessee Legislature. In 1879 he moved to Silver 
Cliff, Colo. He was a member of Congress from 1889 to 1893. In 1897 he 
was appointed judge of the United States District Court for the Southern 
District of Indian Territory and was reappointed in 1902. He died in 

1909 at Ardmore, Okla. 

*Edward Lytton Tracy, Georgia, '51, studied law and began its prac- 
tice at Macon, Ga. At the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate 
Army as a colonel, and was soon made a brigadier-general. He was killed at 
the battle of Port Gibson, Miss., June 21, 1863. 

BiRNEY Elias TrasKj Minnesota, '90, received the degree of C. E. in 
1894. From his graduation until 1903 he was an engineer with the Chicago, 
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, 
and the engineer's office at St. Paul of the War Department. From 1908 
to 1910 he was professor of Civil Engineering at Denison University. From 

1910 to 1912 he was superintendent of Construction at New Orleans for 
James Stewart & Company and since 1912 has been superintendent and 
chief engineer of the Puffer Hubbard Manufacturing Company of Minne- 
apolis. 

*Charles Hekry Treat, Dartmouth, '65, after graduation engaged in 
the West Indian trade. In 1877 he removed to Delaware where he took an 
active part in politics and secured a Republican administration for the first 
time in its history. He was a member of Congress from 1888 to 1892. He 
was a member of six successive Republican National conventions. In 1892 
he removed to New York City and engaged in business. He was president 




DANIEL A. TOWNSEND 
Davidson '5S 




CHARLES H. TREAT 
Dartmouth '65 



HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER 323 

of the Manila Navigation Co., the Fentress Coal & Coke Co., the Knoxville 
Power Co., and the American Petroleum & Separating Co. From 1897 to 
190.5 he was United States collector of internal revenue for the Second Dis- 
trict of New York. From 1905 to 1907 he was treasurer of the United 
States. He died of apoplexy in New York City May 30, 1910. 

*Henry Hoffbian Trimble, DePauw, '47, was admitted at the Indi- 
ana Chapter. After his graduation he moved from Indiana to Iowa, 
studied law and settled at Keokuk. He was a member of the State Sen- 
ate of Iowa from 185.5 to 18G1. When the war broke out he entered the 
Union army and became colonel of the 3d Iowa Cavalry and was severely 
wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. In 1863 he became judge of 
the District Court of Iowa, serving for four years. In 1879 he was 
Democratice candidate for governor, but was defeated. He was presi- 
dent of the Iowa Bar Association in 1881 and 1882. He was general 
attorney for the St. I>., K. & N. W. R. R. and the C, B. & K. C. R. R., 
and upon the organization of the Burlington system became its general 
attorney He died at Keokuk in 1910. 

*JuLius Augustus Trousdale, Cumberland, '70, became a lawyer. From 
1870 to 1874 and from 1893 to 1899 he was a member of the Tennessee Leg- 
islature and speaker in 1893. From 1876 to 1880 he was a member of the 
Tennessee Senate. During the war he was a private in the 2nd Tennessee 
Infantry. He was the author of the Fraternity song, "The Initiation." He 
died in 1899 at Gallatin, Tenn. 

•Alfred Bland Tucker, Hampden-Sidney, '53, received the degree of 

A. M. from William and Mary College in 1851 and the same year the de- 
gree of M. D. from the Virginia Medical College. In 1854 he graduated from 
the Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sidney. From 1854 to 1857 he was 
professor of Anatomy and Materia Medica at the Winchester Medical Col- 
lege. From 1860 to 1862 lie was professor of Medicine and Chemistry at 
the Savannah Medical College and was also in charge of the Confederate 
hospital at Savannah and the editor of the Savannah Journal of Medicine. 
He died at Savannah in 1862. 

Hekry St. Georoe Tucker, Washington and Lee, '75, received his LL. 

B. degree in 1876 and was admitted to the bar at Staunton, Va. From 1889 
to 1897 he was a member of Congress. From 1897 to 1902 he was professor 
of Constitutional and International Law and Equity at Washington and 
Lee, and from 1899 to 1902 was dean of the law school. From 1903 to 1905 
he was dean of the schools of law, politics and diplomacy at George Wash- 



324 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

ington University. He was president of the American Bar Association, 
1904-5, and of the Jamestown Exposition, 1905-6. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from Mississippi in 1899 and George Washington University in 1903. 
He resides at Lexington, Va. 

James Hayden Tufts, Amherst, '84, graduated from the Yale Theo- 
logical School in 1889. In 1891 and 1892 he studied at Freiburg and Ber- 
lin, graduating from the University of Freiburg in 1892 with the degree of 
Ph. D. From 1885 to 1887 he was instructor of Mathematics at Amherst 
and from 1889 to 1891 instructor of Philosophy at Michigan. Since 1892 he 
has been connected with the University of Chicago, first as an assistant pro- 
fessor, then as associate professor, and professor and since 1904 
as head of the department of Philosophy. From 1889 to 1904 and 
from 1907 to 1908 he was dean of the senior college. He is the 
author of a work on "Ethics" and of numerous monographs on subjects re- 
lating to his specialty. He has translated "Windelband's History of Phil- 
osophy" and has been an editor of the School Review. He is a member of the 
American Philosophical Association, Western Psychological Association and 
the Western Philosophical Association. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Amherst in 1904. He resides in Chicago. * B K. 

Joseph Salathiel Tunisox, Denison, '73, became a journalist. From 
1874 to 1883 he was on the Cincinnati Gazette, from 1884 to 1896 he was 
telegraph editor of the New York Tribune, from 1901 to 1903 he was an 
editor of the Ohio State Journal and from 1903 to 1907 of the DaytoH 
Journal. Since the last mentioned date he has been writing independently 
for many periodicals. He is the author of a number of books, "Master 
Virgil," "The Sapphic Stanza," "Dramatic Traditions of the Dark Ages," 
and some privately printed books. He is the author of the fraternity song, 
"Gemma Nostra" and the "Beta Doxologj^" He resides at Dayton, Ohio. 

Henry Allen Tupper, Richmond, '75, Virginia, '76, graduated from the 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1889 and entered the ministry of 
the Baptist church. He has been pastor of prominent churches in Har- 
rodsburg, Ky. ; Louisville, Ky. ; Baltimore, Md., and Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Richmond College in 1890 and LL. D. 
from Georgetown College in 1906. During the Spanish war he was a special 
chaplain among the soldiers in Florida with the rank of captain. He is 
president of the New York Baptist Ministers' Conference and of the New 
York Mission. He is the author of "Armenia," "Around the World with 
Eyes Wide Open," "The Empire of Japan," "Columbia's AVar for Cuba," 



WILL f AM JOHXSrON TWIMXG 32S 

"Uncle Allen's Party in Palestine." He was elected special j^eace commis- 
sioner of the International Peace Forum. He resides in New York City. 

*WiLLiAM CuLLEN TruxER^ Western Reserve, '50, studied theology and 
became a Presbyterian clergyman. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted 
in the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private. He was soon promoted to 
be a captain. He then became for a time adjutant-general of Gen. VanCleve 
and later lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the 177th Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. In 1870 he became chaplain at the Soldiers' Home in Milwaukee, 
dying there Oct. 3, 1877. 

*WiLLiAM JoiiNSTox TwiNiNG, Wabash, '54, 'did not graduate at col- 
lege, but attended the L'nited States Military Academy, where he gradu- 
ated in 1850. He was professor of Engineering at the United States Mil- 
itary Academy from 1860 to 1873 and professor of Chemistry at the 
University of Missouri from 1873 to 1879. From 1879 to 1882 he was a 
commissioner (alderman) of the District of Columbia. He died at Wash- 
ington, D. C, 1882. 




HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER 
Washington and Lee '75 




WILLIS VAN DEVANTER 
DePauw '81 



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Joiix NoTTixGHAM UpsHt'u, Richmoncl, '68, graduated from the Medi- 
cal College of ^'irg•inia and became a physician and has since practiced at 
Richmond. In 1863 he was a member of the V. M. I. cadets and fought in 
the battle of Newmarket. He delivered the address representing the New- 
market Corps of these cadets at the unveiling of the memorial statue, '"Vir- 
ginia Mourning Her Dead." From 1884 to 1894 he was professor of 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the Medical College of Virginia. From 
1884 to 1892 he was clinical lecturer and from 1894 to 1899 professor of the 
Practice of Medicine in that College. He is the author of numerous medi- 
cal papers. He is an ex-president and honorary fellow of the Richmond 
Academy of Medicine and Surgery and an honorary fellow of the medical 
society of West Virginia. He is lieutenant-colonel and surgeon general of 
the Virginia division of Confederates. He resides at Richmond, Va. 

*AuTitiTR Wheelock Upsox, Minnesota, '0.5, after graduation went 
abroad to study at Oxford, England and Weimar, Germany. He re- 
turned and became assistant professor of English at the University of 
Minnesota. He was drowned at Lake Bemidji, Minn., August 18th, 1908. 
He was an author and poet. He wrote "The Sign of the Harp," "Octaves 
in an Oxford Garden," "The City," and "The Tides of Spring." <& B K. 



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*George Van Alstyne, Syracuse, '62, studied theology and entered the 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which denomination he 
was very prominent. He was the author of "The Theatre, Its Nature and 
Influence," "History of Modern Methodism," "God's the Nation's Help," 
and "Elements in Our National Life." He received the degree of D. D. 
from Grant University in 188(). He died at South Norwalk, Conn., on 
May 30th, 1913. 

Samuel Colville Vaxce, Wabash, '59, served in the Union army from 
1862 to 1865 as colonel of the 132nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He is sec- 
retary and treasurer of the Upson Machinery Co., and resides at Jackson- 
ville, Fla. 

Willis Van Devanter, DePauw, '81, graduated at the Cincinnati Law 
School in 1881 and engaged in the practice of law at Marion, Ind., from 
1881 to 1884, when he moved to Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1886 he was appointed 
one of the commission to revise the statutes of Wyoming. He was city at- 
torney of Cheyenne in 1887-88, and was then elected to tlie Wyoming Leg- 
islature. In 1889 and 1890 he was chief justice of AVyoming. From 1897 to 
1903 he was an assistant attorney general of the United States, assigned to 
the Department of the Interior. From 1903 to 1910 he was United States 
circuit judge for the 8th Circuit and was then appointed a justice of the 
Supreme Court of the United States. From 1898 to 1903 he was professor 
of Equity Jurisprudence and Equity Pleading and Practice in the law de- 
partment of George Washington University. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from DePauw in 1911. * A *. 

Charles Clark Van Kirk, Colgate, "84, after his graduation prac- 
ticed law at Greenwicli, N. Y. Since 1906 he has been a judge of the Su- 
preme Court of the State of New York, and now resides at Whitehall, N. Y. 

John Lane Van Ornum, Wisconsin, '88, graduated with special honors 
and received the degree of C. E. in 1891. He was chief topographer of the 
Mexican Boundary Survey from 1892 to 1894 and made a visit of inspection 
of engineering works and schools in Europe in 1897 and 1898. He was major 
of the Third United States Volunteer Engineers in the war with Spain. 

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330 BETAS OF ACHIKV lUlE^'T 

Since 1899 he has been professor of Civil Engineering in Washington Uni- 
versity. He has held many responsible positions on municipal railways and 
government engineering works throughout the United States. He is the 
author of "The Regulation of Rivers" and of many technical papers on sur- 
veying and engineering, and was the pioneer investigator and writer on the 
subject of the Fatigue of Concrete. He is a member of the -American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and many other organizations of similar character. 
He resides in St. Louis. 2 S. 

Donald Dexter Van Slyke, Michigan, '05, received his Ph. D. degree 
in 1907 and since that date has been an associate in the Rockefeller Insti- 
tute for Medical Research. He is considered one of the leading physiolo- 
gist chemists in the United States. S 2. 

Ltjcitjs Lincoln Van Slyke, Michigan, '79, took post gradute work 
in chemistry after his graduation and received the degree of A. M. in 1881 
and Ph. D. in 1882. He was a Fellow at Johns Hopkins in 1889 and 1890. 
He was professor of Chemistry at Oahu College, Honolulu, and official 
chemist of Hawaii from 1885 to 1888. In 1888 and 1889 he was a lecturer 
on Chemistry at the University of Michigan, and since 1890 he has been 
chief chemist of the New York Agricultural Experimental Station at 
Geneva, N. Y. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. He is a specialist in the chemistry of milk and its 
products, and the author of "Modern Methods of Testing Milk and Milk 
Products," "Science and Practice of Cheese Making," and "Fertilizers and 
Crops." * B K. 

Richard Snowden Veech, Centre, '.52, was a farmer from 1853 to 
1869, cashier of the Farmers & Drovers' Bank at Louisville from 1869 to 
1880, president of the "Monon" Railroad from 1880 to 1883, during which 
time he built the line from Chicago to Indianapolis and acquired the ter- 
minals of that railroad in Chicago. He is now a farmer again, but is also 
a member of the executive committee of the United States Trust Co. of 
Louisville. He resides at St. Matthews, Ky. 

*Charles Scott Venabi.e, Hampden-Sidney, '50, Virginia, '56, after 
graduating from college studied in Europe at the Universities of Bonn and 
Berlin. He then became a professor of Mathematics in Hampden-Sidney 
College until 1854, of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Georgia 
until 1857 and then, when he removed to the University of South Carolina, 
he became its professor of Astronomy, remaining in that position until 




LUCIUS L. VAN slvkp: 

Michigan 'Tit 




DANIEL. W VORHEES 
DePauw '49 



FRANK BUPFINGTON V ROOM AN 331 

1861. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army in the Engineer Corps and 
became a colonel, assistant adjutant-general and aide to Gen. R. E. Lee. 
After the war lie l)ecanie professor of Mathematics at the University of 
Virginia, a position which he retained until his death in 1900. From 1869 to 
1873 he was chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia and its 
acting president. He was the autlior of a series of mathematical text books 
including "Arithmetic," "Algebra," "Geometry," and "Solid Analytics." He 
received the degree of I.L. D. from the Universitj^ of South Carolina in 
1867. 

Leroy Tudor Verxon^ Chicago, '00, was city editor of the Times at 
Everett, Wash., in 1898-9, reporter on the Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1898 to 
1901, and since 1903 Washington correspondent of the Chicago Daili/ News. 
He is a member of the Gridiron Club and in 1912 was director of the Pub- 
licity Bureau for President Taft in the presidential campaign. He resides 
at Washington, D. C. 

*Daniel Woolsey Vooriiees, DePauw, '49, was admitted to the bar in 
1851 at Terre Haute, Ind. From 18.58 to 1861 he was United States dis- 
trict attorney for Indiana. In 1861 he was elected to Congress and served 
until 1866. He was again elected in 1869 and served until 1873. In 1877 
he was elected United States senator and served until his death in 1897. 
He was orator before the Fraternity convention of 1870 at Chicago. 

Fred Hale Vose, Maine, '00, is associate professor of Mechanical En- 
gineering at the Case School of Applied Science and is in charge of the 
engineering department at that school. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Society for the Promotion of 
Engineering Education. 2 2. 

Frank Buffington Vrooman, Harvard, '90, studied at Washinirn and 
Beloit before entering Harvard and afterwards stiulied at Berlin and 
Oxford, securing the degree of B. Sc. from Oxford in 1909. He has been 
an explorer of unfrequented parts of Canada. He is a Fellow of the 
Royal Geographical Society and a special lecturer before the School of 
Geography at Oxford University. He is the author of "Theodore Roose- 
velt, Dynamic Geograpiier," and "The New Politics." He is editor of the 
British Columbia Magazine, and resides at Vancouver. 



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Marshman Edward Wadsworth, Pennsylvania State, graduated from 
Bowdoin in 1869 and from Harvard in 1874, receiving a Ph. D. from Har- 
vard in 1879. He also was a student at Heidelberg in 1884 and 1885. He; 
was a professor of Chemistry at the Boston Dental College in 1873 and 
1874; instructor in Mathematics and Mineralogy in Harvard from 1874 to 
1877; instructor in Geology from 1877 to 1885, and professor of Mineralogy 
and Geology at Colby from 1885 to 1887; president of the Michigan College 
of Mines from 1887 to 1899; professor of Mining and Geology from 1901 to 
1908, and dean of the School of Mining and Metallurgy at Pennsylvania 
State College from 1906 to 1908. Since then he has been dean of the School 
of Mines and professor of Mining Geology at the University of Pittsburgh. 
He was assistant state geologist of Minnesota from 1876 to 1877 and state 
geologist of Michigan from 1888 to 1893. He is a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science; the Geological Society of 
London and the Geological Society of America. He is the author of a work 
on "Crystallography" and of many other books and papers. He resides at 
Pittsburgh, Pa. * K 4>. 

William Henry Wait, Northwestern, '79, was professor of Latin and 
German at Illinois Wesleyan University from 1883 to 1888 and was acting 
president of the University during 1887 and 1888, and dean of the depart- 
ment of Literature and Science from 1888 to 1890. He was professor of 
Latin and Greek at the Peoria high school from 1890 to 1893; then a student 
at the Universities of Berlin and Bonn in 1893 and 1894 and from 1895 to 
1901 was professor of Latin and Sanskrit, and since 1901 has been professor 
of Modern Languages at the University of Michigan. He is the author of 
"Orations of Lysias," also "A German Science Reader." He resides at Ann 
Arbor, Mich. * B K. 

*Charles Duy Walker, Virginia Military Institute, '69, entered the 
Virginia Military Institute when about fifteen years of age and was at 
the head of his class during his entire course. After graduation he was an 
assistant professor at the Institute for two years and then became a. 
teacher at the Episcopal high school, Alexandria, Va. He decided to study 
for the ministry and entering the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alex- 
andria, he graduated there in 1875. In the fall of 1875 he became rector 

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334 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

of the Church of the Ascension at Amherst Court House. He died there in 
1877 of typhoid fever. While at the V. M. I., at the request of General 
Smith, the superintendent, he wrote a memorial volume of the V. M. I. 
cadets who were killed at the battle of New Market. He was the first 
general seci'etary of the fraternity, serving from 1872 to 1873 and he was 
the first editor of the Beta Theta Pi, the first fraternity journal. 

Charles Mannikg Walker, Ohio, '54, is one of the editors of the Indi- 
anapolis Journal. He was a teacher in the Indiana Institute for the Blind from 
1854 to 1857. In 1863 he became a clerk in the United States treasury de- 
partment; from 1862 to 1869 he was fifth auditor of the same. From 1870 
to 1872 he was editor of the Sedalia, Mo., Times. Since 1872 he has been 
an editor of the Indianapolis Journal except from 1883 to 1885, when he 
was chief clerk of the Post Office Department at Washington. He is the 
author of "History of Athens, Ohio," "First Settlement of Ohio at Mari- 
etta," "A Life of Oliver P. Morton," "A Life of Oliver P. Horey." 

Ernest Walker^ DePauw, '90, is an eminent horticulturist and teacher. 
He was an instructor at Cornell in 1897. In 1897 and 1898 he was as- 
sistant horticulturist and entomologist at Clemson College, S. C, and 
at the South Carolina Agricultural Experimental Station. He was en- 
tomologist of the same from 1898 to 1900. From 1900 to 1913 he was profes- 
sor of Horticulture at the University of Arkansas. From 1900 to 1905 he was 
horticulturist and entomologist at the Arkansas Agricultural Experimental 
Station. He was secretary of the Arkansas State Horticultural Society 
from 1900 to 1906 and 1909 to 1913. He is professor of horticulture at the 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute and state horticulturist of Alabama. He 
has written much on horticulture and related subjects and has exerted a 
powerful influence on the development of the fruit industry of the State of 
Arkansas. He is the author of "Articles on Garden Making" and is a Fel- 
low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. S S. 

*JoHN Monroe Walker, Michigan, '46, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Chicago in 1849. From 1853 to 1875 he was general 
counsel for the Michigan Central Railroad. From 1871 to 1876 he was also 
general solicitor for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway and its 
president. In 1874 he became the president and general manager of the 
Union Stock Yards at Chicago, a position which he retained until his 
death, which occurred at Chicago Jan. 22, 1881. 

Robert Franklin Walker, Missouri, '73, graduated from the Law 
Department in 1875 and has since practiced law. From 1877 to 1885 he was 



CLYDE WILLIAM WAR BURTON 335 

prosecuting attorney of Morgan County, Missouri; from 1885 to 1889, as- 
sistant attorney general of Missouri; from 1892 to 1897, attorney general 
of Missouri. He was a member of tlie conunission to revise the statutes 
of Missouri in 1889 and of a similar commission in 1909. He is a lecturer 
on law at the St. I>ouis University and the State University. He resides 
at St. Louis. He was elected one of the judges of the Supreme Court of 
Missouri in 1912 for a term of ten years. He resides at Jefferson City, Mo. 

Geokge Wili.amd Wall, Michigan, '.58, graduated from the Cincinnati 
Law School in 1859. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 at DuQuoin, III. 
He was a member of the Illinois State Constitutional Conventions of 1862 
and 1870. From 1864 to 1868 he was state's attorney for the Third Illi- 
nois Circuit. In 1877 he became judge of the Circuit Court and in 1879 
of the Appellate Court, serving until 1897. He has been president of the 
State Board of Law Examiners since the organization of the Board in 
November, 1879. He retired from active practice of law in 1906. He is a 
member of the Illinois Bar Association and of the American Bar Associ- 
ation. He resides at DuQuoin, 111. 

*David Alexanokr Wallace, Miami, '46, was one of the most prom- 
inent clergymen of the United Presbyterian church. He was president of 
Muskingum College from 1816 to 1849. He graduated in 1851 from the 
Allegheny, Pa., Theological Seminary and was at once appointed pastor 
of the United Presbyterian church at Fall River, Mass. In 1856 he was 
elected president of Monmouth College and held that position for twenty- 
one years, resigning to become pastor of the United Presbyterian church 
at Wooster, Ohio, where he died Oct. 21, 1883. He was elected president of 
Westminster College, Pa., in 1883, but did not accept the position. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Indiana and Lly. D. from Miami. He 
was for a long time a trustee of the Allegheny Seminary and of Wooster 
University. He was moderator of the General Assembly of 1864 and a 
delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council of 1880. He was the author of 
"New England Theology," "Church Membership" and other books, and a 
prolific writer upon theological subjects and a contributor to many 
journals and reviews. 

Gus Walters, Iowa Wesleyan, '79, was professor of Mental Science 
and vice president of Iowa Wesleyan University from 1888 to 1896, since 
which time he has been professor of Mathematics at the Iowa State Nor- 
mal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

Clyde William Warburton, Iowa State, '02, was for a time after 
graduation an editor with the Webb Publishing Co. at St. Paul, Minn. 



336 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

He is now the Agronomist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

*Jesse Durbin Wakd, Miami, '43, after leaving college studied law. 
His talents were soon recognized and he became prosecuting attorney of 
Warren County, Ohio, in 1845, a position he held until 1851, when he was 
elected to the State Legislature. In 1856 he was nominated for Congress 
and in 1857 for the position of attorney general, but was defeated. In 
1858 he was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Bench, but declined. At the 
beginning of the war he enlisted in, the Union army as a private in the 
12th Ohio Infantry, and served through the war; later he became major 
of the 17th Ohio Infantry, then a lieutenant-colonel, a colonel and finally 
brigadier-general in the 14th Corps, Army of the Cumberland. After the 
war was over he returned to Cincinnati and was United States district at- 
torney for the Southern District of Ohio until 1869. In 1870 he became a 
member of the State Senate and after serving one term declined a nom- 
ination. He was a prolific writer and a speaker much sought after. He 
died May 22, 1886. 

Joseph Hooker Ward, Brown, '86, is president of the City Real Estate 
Company, fourth vice president of the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Com- 
pany, and real estate officer in the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 
all in New York City. 

* William Clark Wardlaw^ South Carolina, '58, graduated from the 
South Carolina Medical College in 1861. At the outbreak of the war he 
became captain of the 2nd South Carolina Rifles in the Confederate army 
and served until 1865. He then studied dentistry and attended the 
Pennsylvania Dental College in 1866 and the New York College of Den- 
tistry in 1868. He practiced dentistry at Atlanta, Ga. For a number of 
years he was president of the South Carolina Dental Society, the Georgia 
State Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association, and at the 
time of his death, which occurred Sept. 3, 1893, he was dean of the Atlanta 
Dental College and professor of Anatomy and Physiology in that college. 
He was an associate editor of the Southern Dental Journal and the Dental 
Archives. 

Frank Julian Warne, Pennsylvania, '96, A. M., '98, Ph. D., '02. After 
leaving college he served on a number of newspapers as a reporter and staff 
correspondent, notably on the Philadelphia Public Ledger from 1896 to 
1902. He was editor of the Railway World from 1903 to 1906. He was secre- 
tary of the immigration department of the National Civic Federation in 
1906-07 and of the New York State Immigration Commission in 1908-10. He 




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PHILIP A. WELKER 
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WILLIAM MARSHALL WARREX 337 

studied abroad in 1907. He became the first director of the Department of 
Journalism at New York University and was lecturer on Economics at New 
York University and the University of Pennsylvania. Later he served the 
United States government Census Bureau as special expert on our foreign- 
born population in the census of 1910. In 1912 he was statistical expert of 
the Federal Board of Arbitration, appointed to settle the wage controversy 
between the locomotive engineers and the Eastern railroads, and in 1913 was 
the statistical representative of the conductors and trainmen in their con- 
certed wage movement against the Eastern railways, which also was arbi- 
trated in favor of the men, before a federal board appointed under the 
Newland's act. In 1914 he was statistical representative of the shippers be- 
fore the Interstate Commerce Commission in the application of the Eastern 
railroads for an increase in freight rates. He is a frequent contributor to 
the magazines and is the author of "The Slav Invasion," "The Coal Mine 
Workers,'' "Immigration and the Southern States," "The Immigrant In- 
vasions," etc. He resides at the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. 

*Henry White Warrex, Wesleyan, '53, entered the ministry of the 
Methodist church in 18.55. He was pastor of a number of churches, prin- 
cipally in Philadelphia, from 1870 to 1880. From 1880 to 1912, he was 
a bishop of the church. He was the author of a number of booljs, in- 
cluding "Sights and Insights," "The Lesser Hymnal," "Studies of the 
Stars," "Recreations in Astronomy," "The Bible and the World's Educa- 
tion," and "Among the Forces." He received the degree of P. D. from 
Dickinson in 1880 and LL. D. from Ohio Wesleyan in 1892. He died at 
Denver, Colo., July 22, 1912. <1> B K. 

William Fairfield Warren, Wesleyan, '53, after his graduation stud- 
ied at the Andover Theological Seminary and went to Europe and studied 
at the Universities of Berlin and Halle. In 1857 he was professor of Sys- 
tematic Theology at the Mission Institute in Bremen, and from 1866 to 1873 
was president of the Boston Theological Seminary. From 1873 to 1903 he 
was president of Boston University. Since 1903 he has been dean of the 
School of Theology of the Boston University. He is the author of "The 
True Key to Ancient Cosmology," "Paradise Found," "The Quest of the 
Perfect Religion," and "In the Footsteps of Arminius," "The Story of Gott- 
lieb," "Constitutional Law Questions in the Methodist Episcopal Church," 
"The Religions of the World and the World Religion." He resides at Brook- 
line. He received the degree of IX. D. from Wesleyan in 1874. ^ B K. 

William Marshall Warren, Boston, '87, studied at the Universities 
of Tubingen, Jean and Berlin. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Bos- 



338 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

ton in 1891. Since 1896 he has been professor of Philosophy at Boston Uni- 
versity and since 1895 dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He resides at 
Brookline, Mass. * B K. 

William Robinson Warren^ Bethany, '89, received the degree of A. 
M. in 1893. Immediately after graduation he entered the ministry of the 
Disciples of Christ. From 1889 to 1890 he was pastor of a church at 
Pinewood, Tenn. From 1890 to 1892 he was pastor of a church at Dayton, 
Ohio, from 1893 to 1896 of a church at Santa Barbara, Cal., and from 
1897 to 1903 of a church at Connellsville, Pa. He was professor of Latin at 
Bethany in 1892-93 and a student of the University of Chicago in 1897. 
He was manager and editor of The Christian Worker at Pittsburgh from 
1903 to 1905, centennial secretary of his denomination from 1905 to 1909, 
manager of the denominational Board of Publication and editor of The 
Christian Evangelist from 1910 to 1912, and since 1912 secretary of the 
Board of Ministerial Relief at Indianapolis, Ind. 

Albert Henry Washburn, Cornell, '89, graduated in law from George- 
town University in 1895. From 1890 to 1893 he was United States consul at 
Magdeburg, Germany. From 1901 to 1904 he was special counsel for the 
United States treasury department. He was decorated by King Haakon in 
SeptAnber, 1913, as Knight of the first class of the Royal Order of Olav for 
distinguished legal services to Norway. He is a specialist in the law of the 
tariff and practices in New York City. 

Lewis Anthony Waterman, Brown, '94, studied law and has prac- 
ticed in Providence, R. I. He was a member of the Rhode Island Legisla- 
ture in 1907 and 1908, and was the Democratic candidate for governor in 
1910 and 1911, but was defeated. $ B K. 

Edmond Watkins, Mississippi, '71, graduated from the Cumberland 
Law School in 1872. He has been twice a member of the Mississippi Leg- 
islature and twice mayor of Chattanooga. He has been president of the 
Lookout Mountain R. R. Co. and is now engaged in general corporation 
law practice at Chattanooga, Tenn., where he resides. 

*Hezekiah Watkins, Wesleyan, '57, left college without graduating 
and graduated with the class of '57 at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
as a civil engineer. He then went to Yale and two years later received his 
bachelor's degree. He then attended the Albany law school and was admitted 
to the bar in 1860. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Union army 
and served throughout the entire war, being mustered out as lieutenant- 
colonel of the 143d New York Volunteer Infantry. He settled down to 



JOSHUA HOWE WATTS 339 

practice law at Arlington, N. J., and made a specialty of patent practice 
for which he was fitted by his technical education. He died at Arlington, 
N. J., in 1885. 

* J AMES Craig Watsox, Michigan, '57, upon his graduation became 
assistant professor of Physics and observer in the Astronomical Laboratory 
at the University of Michigan, a position which he retained until 1860, when 
he became professor of Physics. In 1863 he was m3,de professor of Astron- 
omy and director of tlie Observatory, and continued as such until 1879, 
when he was made professor of Astronomy and director of the AVashburn 
Observatory at the University of Wisconsin, retaining this position until 
his death, which took place November 23, 1880. He was a noted astron- 
omer. He was sent to Sicily to observe the total eclipse of the sun in 1870 
and to Pekin to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. He discovered the 
planet Vulcan in 1878 and also discovered twenty-three asteroids. He re- 
ceived a gold medal from the French Academy of Science in 1870. He was 
a contributor to the English, French, German, Italian and American scien- 
tific and educational periodicals on technical subjects. He was the author 
of a "Popular Treatise on Comets," "Theoretical Astronomy," "Report on 
Horological Instruments," and "Interest in Discount Tables." He was made 
a Knight Commander of the Order of the Medjidich of Turkey for his dis- 
tinguished services in astronomy. He received the degree of Ph. D. from 
the University of Leipzig in 1870 and from Yale in 1871, and the degree of 
LL. D. from Columbia in 1877. 

Walter Allex Watsox, Hampden-Sidney, '87, graduated from the 
law department of the University of Virginia in 1889. From 1891 to 1895 
he was a member of the Virginia Senate, and from 1895 to 1904 state's 
attorney for Nottoway County, Virginia; from 1904 to 1912 he was judge 
of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Virginia. He was elected to Congress 
for the term, 1913-15. In 1892 he was secretary of the Democratic State 
Committee and in 1901 was a member of the Democratic Executive Com- 
mittee. He is a trustee of his alma mater. He resides at Jennings Ordi- 
nary, Va. 

Joshua Howe Watts, Indiana, '57, entered the United States army in 
1862 as a paymaster and served until 1869, becoming a lieutenant-colonel. 
At the close of the war he moved to New Mexico and settled at White 
Oaks and became adjutant general of New Mexico and vice president of 
the Bonito and White Oaks Mining Co. In 1903 he moved to Honduras and 
since 1905 has been vice United States consul at Puerta Cortes, Honduras. 



340 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Samuel S. Weatherby, Ohio Wesleyan, '66, served as a private in the 
133rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. After graduation he 
became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church in the North Ohio 
Conference. From 1871 to 1880 he M'as professor of Latin and Greek at 
Baker University and during 1872 to 1875 was president of the University. 
From 1877 to 1880 he had appointments in the Southern Kansas Conference ; 
was president of the Kansas Educational Association and from 1879 to 1880 
mayor of Baldwin City, Kan. He resides at Lawrence, Kan. 

Edwix Oscar Weaver, Wittenberg, '89, was instructor of Mathematics 
of Wittenberg College from 1889 to 1893 and principal of the preparatory 
department from 1893 to 1896. Since 1896 he has been professor of Physics 
and Biology at Wittenberg and since 1895 secretary of the faculty. He 
resides at Springfield, Ohio. 

*RoBERT Howell Webb, Centre, '57, graduated in law at Cumberland 
University in 1859. He entered the Confederate army in the 11th Tennes- 
see Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to be its colonel, and during the 
last two years of the war served as chief-of-staff to General Stevenson. He 
died at Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 23, 1872. 

William H. Webster, Syracuse, '60, entered the Union army and be- 
came colonel of the 8th New York Cavalry. From 1867 to 1870 he was a 
member of the legislature of West Virginia. He resided for some years 
in Nebraska and in 1878 was the Democratic candidate for governor in 
that state. From 1884 to 1886 he was treasurer of Merrick County, Ne- 
braska. From 1884 to 1886 he was attached to the staff of the governor of 
Nebraska with the rank of colonel. He has held many positions of honor 
and trust. He resides at Indianapolis. 

*Thomas Bell Weir, Michigan, '61, entered the United States army in 
1861 as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Michigan Cavalry. He was suc- 
cessively promoted until he became a colonel in 1865 and during the last 
two years of the war served on the staif of General P. H. Sheridan. At the 
close of the war he entered the regular army as a first lieutenant of cav- 
alry and gradually rose in rank until he became a lieutenant-colonel. He 
died at New York, Dec. 9, 1876. 

*Abram Edwards W^elch, Mchigan, '60, left college before graduation 
and settled in Redwing, Minnesota. In 1860 he was nominated for secretary 
of state of Minnesota, but declined the nomination. In 1861 he enlisted in tlie 
First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in the Union army and served for a 
year. He then served in the 3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in the war 



ANDREW FLEMING WEST 341 

against the Sioux Indians. He then became major of the 4th Minnesota 
Volunteer Infantry and died in February, 1864, at Vicksburg, Miss., from 
wounds received in the service. 

Philip Albert Welkek, Cornell, '78, entered the service of the United 
States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1879 and has remained in that service 
engaged in the details of tlie many important surveys incident to such 
employment. In 1893 he represented the government of the United States 
in a joint survey of the Alaska Boundary with a surveying party repre- 
senting the government of Canada. From 1891 to 1906 he was com- 
mander of the steamer, "Bache" and in 1911 took charge of the sub-office 
of tlie Coast Survey at Manilla, and is now serving as director of the 
Coast Survey in the Philippine Islands. He is a member and secretary of 
the Philippine committee on geograjiiucal names and a member of the 
Harbor Lines Commission of the Philippine Islands. His permanent ad- 
dress is in care of the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington, D. C. 

*CAL\T}sr Wells, Washington & Jefferson, '.5.5, was born in Genesee 
County, New York, Dec. 26, 1827, and died at Allegheny, Pa., Aug. 3, 
1909. After leaving college he engaged in the manufacture of steel with 
Dr. C. G. Hussey under the firm name of Hussey & Wells. In 186-5 he 
engaged in the manufacture of car springs as a member of the firm of A. 
French Co. He sold his interest in that enterprise in 1884. From 1870 to 
the time of his death he was president of the Illinois Zinc Co., and 
from 1878 to 1909 president of the Pittsburg Forge & Iron Co. In 1878 he 
became the proprietor of the Philadelphia Press. He was noted for his 
philanthropy and made many donations to charitable institutions. 

Ebexezer Tracy Wells, Knox, '55, studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1857 and began practice at Rock Island, 111. In 1861 he entered 
the Union army as a private in the 89th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and 
was gradually promoted until he attained the rank of colonel. He was 
very severly wounded at the Battle of Peach Tree Creek. In 1865 he re- 
moved to Colorado and was a member of the Colorado Legislature in 1866. 
He was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Colorado from 
1871 to 1875 and of the State Supreme Court from 1876 to 1877. He was 
a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1876. Since 1909 he has been 
reporter of the Supreme Court of Colorado. He is the author of a work on 
"Replevin" and in 1868 was the compiler of the Revised Statutes of Colo- 
rado. He resides at Denver. 

Andrew Fleming West, Centre, '70, graduated from Princeton in 
1874. Since 1883 he has been professor of Latin at Princeton and since 



342 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

1901 dean of its graduate school. He declined the presidency of the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology in 1911. He is an authority on univer- 
sity education. He is the author of "Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian 
Schools," "Latin Grammar," "American Liberal Education," and the editor 
of "Terence" and "The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury." He received the 
degree of Ph. D. from Princeton in 1883, LL. D. from Lafayette, 1897, and 
L. Litt from Oxford in 1902. He resides at Princeton, N. J. 

*Nathaniei. West, Michigan, '46, graduated in 1852 at the Allegheny 
Theological Seminary, and in 1854 at the Princeton Seminary and entered 
the ministry of the Presbyterian church. From 1853 to 1860 he was pas- 
tor of the Central Church at Cincinnati, and from 1860 to 1868 of the 
Second Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. From 1869 to 1885 he was 
professor of Theology at the Danville Theological Seminary, and from 
1875 to 1878 editor of the Princeton Review. From 1877 to 1882 he was a 
member of the commission to revise the constitution of the Presbyterian 
church. He received the degree of D. D. from Princeton in 1861. He was 
a frequent contributor to many religious magazines and periodicals, and 
was the author of a series of lectures on "Infidelity and Modern Science" 
and "The Relation of Science to Religion." He was also the author of the 
"Origin and History of Presbyterian Church Government," "Pre-Millennial 
Essays," "The Resurrection of the Body," "The Thousand Years in Both 
Testaments," "The Ancestry, Life and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sib- 
ley." He was the orator before the Fraternity convention of 1882. He 
died at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1906. 

Samuel Adams West, Ohio, '70, before entering college had served in 
the Union army. He enlisted as a private in the 12th Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry in 1861 and became captain and lieutenant-colonel in the 79th Ohio 
Volunteers before the close of the war. After leaving college he grad- 
uated at the Cincinnati Law School. From 1874 to 1877 he was a member 
of the Ohio Legislature. He is a lawyer and resides at Terrace Park, 
Ohio. 

*William Henry West, Washington & Jefferson, '46. He was one 
of the founders of the Republican party in Ohio. From 1857 to 1861 
he was a member of the Ohio Legislature, serving in the House, and in 1863 
he was elected to the State Senate. In 1865 he was elected attorney general 
and was re-elected to that post in 1867. In 1871 he was appointed a mem- 
ber of the Supreme Court of Ohio, serving until 1873. He was a member 
of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1873-4. Four years later he was 
nominated by the Republican party as its candidate for governor, but was 




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NATHAXIELi "WEST 
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CHARLES STETSOy WHEELER ' 343 

defeated. Judge West at the N'ational Republican convention in Chicago in 
1884, presented the name of James G. Blaine, who was nominated for the 
presidency. It was he who originated the title of "the plumed knight," by 
which the Maine statesman was known. While serving on the supreme 
bench. Judge West lost his sight. Thereafter he was known as the "blind 
man eloquent." He died in March, 1911. 

Charles Partbidge Westox. Maine, '96, received an A. M. degree from 
Columbia in 1902. He is professor of Mechanics at the University" of Maine 
and resides at Orono. T B 11, <!> K $. 

Edward Paysox Whallox, Hanover, *68, attended the McConnick and 
Union Theological Seminaries, graduating at the latter in 1872 and enter- 
ed the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He has been pastor of a num- 
ber of churches: Liberty. Ind., 1872-78, Vincennes. Ind., 1878-87, Fourth 
Church, Indianapolis, 1887-91, Ludlow, Ky., 1892-94, Sixth Church, Cincin- 
nati, 1894-9.5, Elmwood Place church, Cincinnati, 1898-190-5, and Delhi 
church, Cincinnati, 190-5-1910. He was stated clerk of the Synod of Indi- 
ana from 1882 to 1891 and of the Presbytery of Indianapolis from 1890 to 
1903. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Wooster in 1882 and D. D. 
in 1892. He was editor of the Church at Work from 1886 to 1888, and 
since 1891 has been an editor of the Herald and Pre,*bi/fer. He is the 
author of a "History of Vincennes Presbytery" and '"Pastoral Memories.'' 
He resides in Cincinnati. 

*JoHX Jacksox Wheat. Centre, '-51. attended Hanover College from 
1848 to 18-50. He graduated from the Theological Seminary of the Presby- 
terian church at Danville. Ky.. in 18-53, and from the Princeton Theological 
Seminary in 18-54, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. In 18-59 and 1860 he was professor of Ancient Languages at Cen- 
tenary College, La. From 1860 to 1888, except for the interruption of the 
functions of the University during the CivU War, he was Professor of 
Greek at the University of Mississippi. From 1888 to 1893 he served as 
pastor of various Methodist churches in Mississippi and Louisiana. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Cumberland Universitj" in 1872. He died 
at Grenada, Miss.. Oct. 31. 1S93. 

Allex Sawter Wheeijir. Beloit, "90, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Harvard in 190<1. He is professor of Organic Chemistry at the 
University of North Carolina. 

Charles Stetsox Wheeler, California, '84, graduated from the Hast- 
ings College of Law in 1886 and has since been engaged in the practice of 



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law in San Francisco. He was a member of the Committee of Fiftj^ after 
the San Francisco earthquake and was secretary of the Relief Corporation. 
From 1902 to 1908 he was a regent of the University of California. He re- 
sides in San Francisco. 

EDWiiir Bennett Wheelek, Missouri, '99, was professor of Physics at 
the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, for a number of years 
and now holds a similar position at the Clarkson School of Technology at 
Potsdam, N. Y. 

*Homer Wheeler, Indiana, '46, attended the University of Michigan 
from 1843 to 1844. He graduated from the Nashota Theological Seminary 
in 1849 and entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. 
From 1859 to 1862 he was professor of Latin and Greek at Racine Col- 
lege and from 1862 to 1878 of Mathematics at the same college. He died 
in San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 10, 1878. 

* William White Wheeler, Michigan, '56, graduated at the Albany 
Law School in 1858 and practiced law at Chicago. At the outbreak of the 
war he entered the Union army as captain in the 6th Michigan Infantry. 
In 1863 he was promoted to the position of major and in 1864 was made 
colonel of the 28th Michigan Infantry and brevet-brigadier-general. He 
died at Chicago Aug. 28, 1874. 

Albert Conser Whitaker, Stanford, '99, received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Columbia University in 1904. In 1906-07 he was a lecturer in Eco- 
nomics at Columbia and during the summer sessions of 1906 and 1911 
was lecturer in that subject in the University of California. In 1911-1913 
he was temporary professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He 
is the author of "History and Criticism of the Labor Theory of Value," 
"The Ricardian Theory of Specie Distribution," and has written various 
book reviews. He is now professor of Economics at Stanford University. 
He is a member of the American' Economic Association. <l> B K. 

Ambrose Harding White, Maine, '89, is a civil engineer and manager 
of the construction and maintenance department of the International Paper 
Company. He resides in New York City. 

*Ared Frazier White, DePauw, '67. In 1862 he enlisted in the 78th 
Indiana Volunteers in the Union army. His regiment was captured at 
Uniontown, Ky., and being paroled he returned home and entered DePauw 
University. In 1864 he again enlisted in the army in the 133d Indiana Vol- 
unteers. After the war he returned to college and graduated. In 1872 



JAMES THOMAS WHITTAKER 345 

lie was prosecuting attorney of Parke and Montgomery counties, Indiana. 
In 1880 lie was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket. In 1886 he 
was unanimously elected judge of the 47th Judicial District Court and 
served for 18 years. In 1904 he retired and practiced law until his death, 
which occurred Jan. 12, 1914. He was the autlior of the "Farewell Song" 
of the fraternity. 

Clarence Hayward White, Amherst, '86, is professor of Greek at 
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, where he resides. He is a member of the 
Classical Association of New England and of the American Historical As- 
sociation. ^ B K. 

JoHX White, Johns Hopkins, '88, received his Ph. D. degree in 1891. 
From 1891 to 1893 he was instructor in Chemistry at Cornell. From 1893 
to 1903 he was professor of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska. 
Since 1903 he has been professor of Chemistry at the Rose Polytechnic Insti- 
tute. He is the author of "White's Qualitative Analysis." He is a member 
of the American Chemical Society and the German Chemical Society, and a 
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He 
has published a number of papers on technical subjects. He resides at 
Terre Haute, Ind. 2 E. 

*Robert Looxey Caruthers White, Cumberland, '62, joined the Con- 
federate army immediately upon his graduation and served until 1865 as a 
private in the 4th Tennessee Cavalry. He then studied medicine and 
received the degree of M. D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1868. From 
1869 to 1888 he was editor and proprietor of the Herald of Lebanon, Tenn. 
He became interested in the Knights of Pythias and from 1887 to 1909 was 
Supreme Keeper of the Records and Seal of that order. He was a United 
States commissioner for many years. He died at Nashville in 1909. 

WiM.iAiM Fui.LERTox WiiiTE, Pennsylvania State, '87 received the de- 
gree of E. E. from Pennsylvania State in 1899. From 1900 to 1902 he 
was general manager of the Edison Electric Company at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He is now president of the White Investing Company of New York City. 

Greeley Webster Whitford, Iowa Wesleyan, '82, is district judge at 
Denver, Colo. He was district attorney at Denver from 1894 to 1897 and 
United States district attorney from 1897 to 1901. He received the degree 
of LL. D. from Simpson College in 1909. 

*James Thomas Whittaker, Miami, '63, served as a private in the 41st 
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1862 for a term and immediately upon his 
graduation entered the Union army as an assistant surgeon and served 



346 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

until 1865. He stiidied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the 
Ohio Medical College and at Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Paris, and be- 
gan its practice at Cincinnati in 1869. From 1871 to 1878 he was editor 
of The Clinic. From 1869 to 1879 he was professor of Physiology at the 
Ohio Medical College and from 1879 to 1900 of the Theory and Practice of 
Medicine at the same college. He was the author of works on "Physiology" 
and "The Practice of Medicine" and a contributor to the literature of his 
profession. He received the degree of LL. D. from Miami in 1891. He 
died at Cincinnati in 1900. 

*WiLLiAM Jervis Whitthorne, Cumberland, '67, was during the war a 
private in the First Tennessee Infantry in the Confederate army. After 
graduation he studied law and became clerk of the Circuit Court at Co- 
lumbia, Tenn., a position he held until 1878 when he engaged in private 
practice. From 1880 until his death he was in charge of the Tennessee 
army records with the rank of lieutenant. From 1887 to 1889 he was a 
member of the Tennessee Legislature and from 1893 to 1895 of the Ten- 
nessee Senate. During the Spanish war he was major of the First Ten- 
nessee Infantry. He died in 1910 at Columbia, Tenn. 

James Alexander Wickersham, Kansas, '76, received A. B., B. S. 
and M. A. degrees from the University of Kansas and studied at Leipzig, 
Berlin and Goettingen. He was for two years instructor of Greek at the 
University of Kansas. Since 1883 he has been professor at the Rose Poly- 
technic Institute. He is the author of a play, "Aliso and Achne," a book 
of poems and a novel, "Enoch Willoughby." He resides at Terre Haute, 
Indiana. 

*Arthtjr Tappan Wilcox, Michigan, '59, graduated at the law school 
of the University of Michigan in 1861. He entered the Union army in 1861 
as a second lieutenant in the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and left the 
army in 1864, as colonel of the 177th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a 
member of the Ohio Legislature in 1864 and 1865. He then adopted the 
profession of engineering. He died at Port Limon, Costa Rica, October 
24, 1902. 

*George Heddikg Wiley, Wesleyan, '44, became a teacher at various 
places in the South and in 1853 accepted the position of professor of An- 
cient Languages at Centenary College, Louisiana, which position he re- 
tained for forty-six years, until his death in 1899, which occurred at Jack- 
son, La. 

*Philander Wiley, DePauw, '46, entered the ministry of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church and after teaching school for several years became 




chari.es s. wheeler 

(California '84 




CHARLES D. WILLIAMS 
Kenyon '80 



CHARLES DAVID WILLIAMS 347 

pastor of a number of churches in Iowa and Indiana. From 18fi0 to 1880 
he was professor of Greei< at DePauw. His health failed and he moved 
to Colorado. He died at Denver Sept. 22, 1891. 

*I.Ewis Webb Wii.HEt.M, Joluis Ht)pkins, '81, Ph. D., '84, was a grad- 
uate student in political economy and iiistory from 1881 to 1884, hold- 
ing a fellowship for one year. For twenty-five years he was vice prin- 
cipal of the Deichmann Preparatory School. He was a member of the 
Maryland Historical Society and the National Geographic Society. He 
was also an author, among his books being a work on "The Local Institu- 
tions of Maryland" and "The Life of Sir George Calvert." He was one 
of the best known educators in Baltimore. He died April 3, 1911. 

Charles Albert Wilkin, Wisconsin, '74, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar and has resided in Fairplay, Colo. From 1891 to 1898 and 1910 
to 1911 he was mayor of Fairplay. From 1882 to 1883 he was county at- 
torney of Park County, Colo., and from 1883 to 1886 district attorney of 
the 4th Judicial District of Colorado. Since 1911 he has been district judge 
of the 11th Judicial District of Colorado, 

Thomas Rigney Willard, Knox, '66, attended the Chicago Tlieological 
Seminary from 1867 to 18G8 and graduated at the Andover Theological 
Seminary in 1870, and entered the ministry of the Congregational church. 
He also studied at the University of Leipzig from 1873 to 187-5. From 
1875 to 1903 he was professor of Greek and German and from 1903 to 
1912 was professor of German at Knox College. From 1899 to 1900 he 
was acting president of the College. From 1900 to 1912 he was dean of the 
faculty. In 1912 he received the degree of Litt. D. from Knox and resigned 
from the faculty. He was elected at that time to the board of trustees of 
Knox College. Since 1912 he has been Emeritus Professor of German, 
Knox College, on the Carnegie Foundation. He resides at Galesburg, 111. 

*HiRAM WiLLEY, Wcslcyan, '39, was a member of the Connecticut Leg- 
islature from 1847 to 18.51, 1857 to 1859, and 1877 to 1879; was a member 
of the Connecticut Senate from 18-59 to 1861; mayor of New London from 
1862 to 1865, and judge of Common Pleas of New London county. Conn., 
from 1870 to 1873. He was also at different times states attorney and 
United States district attorney for Connecticut. He died at Hadlyme, 
Conn., March 8, 1910. 

Charles David Williams, Kenyon, '80, became a clergyman of the 
Protestant Episcopal church in 1884. From 1889 to 1893 he was rector of 



348 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

St. Paul's Church, Steubenville, Ohio. From 1893 to 1906 he was dean of 
Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland. In 1905 he was elected bishop of Michigan 
and resides in Detroit. He is the author of "A Valid Christianity for To- 
day," and also of numerous reviews and addresses. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. in 1894 and L. H. D. in 1906 from Kenyon, and LL. D. in 
1907 from Hobart. •i- B K. 

*Chari.es Howard Williams, Cumberland, '69, previous to attending 
college was for four years in the Confederate army as a private and during 
the last year of the war serving as courier for Gen. Robert E. Lee. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1870 and immediately was made city attorney 
for Columbus, Ga., serving three years. He was district attorney in 1876 
and 1877. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Georgia 
in 1877 and its secretary and was a member of the Georgia Senate in 1879 
and 1880. He moved to Atlanta, Ga., in 1891 and died there in 1910. 

*Edmund H. Williams, Michigan, '47, studied medicine and began its 
practice at Laporte, Ind., in 1852. He then moved to Philadelphia, Penn.. 
and engaged in business. From 1867 to 1873 he was general superintend- 
ent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was one of the founders and for 
many years vice president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. He died in 
Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 21, 1899. 

*ELKA>fAH Williams, DePauw, '47, was initiated by the Indiana 
Chapter. After graduation he studied medicine and received his M. D. 
degree at the University of Louisville in 1850. After two years' practice 
at Cincinnati he went to Europe and studied at Edinburgh, London, 
Paris and Vienna for three years and became an expert oculist. During 
the war he was a surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital at Cin- 
cinnati. He was professor of Ophthalmology and Otology at the Miami 
Medical College from 1861 to 1884. He was president of the Ohio Medi- 
cal Society in 1875 and president of the International Ophthalmological 
Congress held at New York in 1876. He died at Cincinnati Oct. 5, 1888. 

*EuGENE Williams, Virginia Military Institute, '75, graduated from the 
law department of the University of Virginia in 1877 and was admitted 
to the bar and practiced at Waco, Texas. From 1882 to 1884 he was 
state's attorney of McClellan county, Texas. In 1886 and 1889 he was 
district judge and from 1900 to 1909 was judge advocate general of Texas. 
He was the editor of two editions of "Bumps Bankruptcy." He died at 
Waco in 1909. 



WALTER WHKhlLER WILLIAMS 349 

Fked Homer Williams, Brown, '7'/, graduated from the Boston Uni- 
versity I.aw School in 1879. He was a member of the Massachusetts Leg- 
islature in 1883 and 1884, and of the Massachusetts Senate in 1898 and 
1899. He resides in Boston. 

Oscar Fitzalax Williams, Syracuse, '69, left college before gradua- 
tion and graduated at Cornell. For many years he was a professor in a 
business college at Rochester, N. Y. He then entered the consular service 
and was consul at Havre from 1889 to 1893 and at Manila from 1897 to 
1901. He was the last consul at Manila during the Spanish regime. From 
1901 to 1910 he was consul general at Singapore. He is now engaged 
in lecturing and resides at Rochester, N. Y. 

Samuel Cole Williams, Vanderbilt, '84., immediately after graduation 
began the practice of law at Huml)oldt, Tenn. Subsequently he removed 
to Washington County, Tenn. From 1891 to 1905 he was assistant division 
counsel of the Southern Railway Company and from 1892 to 1901 was 
general counsel of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway Company. Since 
1903 he has been president of the Unaka National Bank of Johnson City^ 
Tenn., and with W. P. Brounlow, built, owned and operated the Johnsoit 
City Traction Company and the Watauga Electric Company. He was 
chancellor of the First Division of Tennessee in 1912-13 and in 1913 was 
appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. He resides, 
at Johnson City. 

Sylvester Gexix Williams, Ohio W^esleyan, '77, graduated from the 
Cincinnati Law School in 1880. For a number of years he practiced law in 
Cincinnati, making a specialty of insurance law and has probably appeared 
in more insurance cases than any other lawyer. In 1890 he moved to Den- 
ver, Colo., where he now resides. For a number of years he lectured before 
the Denver Law School. He was mayor of Montclair, Colo., for three terms. 
He has served as special examiner in a number of noted causes, especially 
tlie case of the United States vs. the Union Pacific Railroad Company. He 
has been very active in matters concerning the Fraternity. He was the 
editor of the Beta Theta Pi from 1879 to 1883 and author of the "Minutes 
of the Diogenes Club." He was a member of the board of directors of the 
Fraternity from 1880 to 1883 and secretary of the board for two years. 

*Walter Wheeler Williams, Virginia, '56, was one of the star grad- 
uates of the Virginia Military Institute in 18.53. From 1858 to 1861 he 
attended the Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria and entered the ministry 
of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was rector of a church at Lewis- 



350 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

burg, W. Va., from 1861 to 1866; at Georgetown, D. C, from 1866 to 1878; 
at St. George's church, New York City, from 1878 to 1881, and at Balti- 
more, Md., from 1881 to 1892. He died at Baltimore June 29, 1892. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from George Washington University in 1876. 

*Samuel Et.adsit Williamson, Western Reserve, '64, graduated with 
honors. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867. He was at 
once admitted to the bar and settled down to the practice of law in 
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1880-82 he was judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas. In 1882 he became solicitor and in 1887 general counsel for the 
New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. and the New York Central & 
Hudson River R. R. and in 1898 general counsel and vice president of the 
West Shore R. R. He was a member of many clubs and societies. He 
received the degree of LL. D. from Western Reserve in 1891. He died at 
Cleveland in 1903. He was the author of the fraternity song, "Our 
Founders." * B K. 

*Alexander Gibson Wilson, W'ashington & Jefferson, '56, after gradu- 
ation became principal of the Natchez, Miss., Institute and remained there 
until the school was closed in 1863 by the war. He then came north and 
attended the Northwestern Theological School, graduating in 1865 and en- 
tered the ministry of the Presbyterian church, in which lie became a leader. 
In 1875 he gave up active pastoral work and accepted the position of pro- 
fessor of Ancient Languages at Parsons College. From 1878 to 1881 he 
was professor of I>atin at Lake Forest, from 1881 to 1883 principal of the 
Elgin Academy, from 1883 to 1888 professor of Biblical Instruction at Lake 
Forest and principal of its preparatory school. From 1888 to 1894 he was 
president of Lenox College and from 1894 to 1903 professor of Apologetics 
at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Omaha. He was a trustee of 
the McCormick Theological Seminary from 1875 to 1894. He died at Omaha 
in 1903. 

Charles Bundy Wilson, Cornell, '84, after his graduation, studied at 
the Universities of Leipzig and Paris in 1884 and 1885. From 1885 to 
1886 he held a Fellowship in Modern Languages at Cornell. From 1886 to 
1888 he was instructor in German at Cornell, and since 1888 has been pro- 
fessor of German at the University of Iowa. He was president of the 
Central Division of the Modern Language Association of America in 1900, 
and vice president of the Modern Language Association of America in 
1901. He is the author of a number of editions of German classics intended 
for the use of students and has writteii a number of German text books. 
He resides at Iowa City. # B K. 



JOSE I'll GARDyhUl WILSON 351 

FiiANK Cahutheks Wh.sox, Wasliington and Lee, "60, studied medicine 
at the University of Virginia, but iii.^ course was interrupted by the war 
and he did not graduate until 1867. In 1861 he entered the Confederate 
army as captain of the 27th Virginia Infantry and served throughout the 
war. He taught at Washington and Lee University from 18.59 to 1860 and 
from 1865 to 1866. From 1874 to 1886 he was professor of Physics and Clin- 
ical Medicine at the Louisville Hospital College. Since 1886 he has been 
professor of Diseases of the Chest at the same institution. He is the author 
of "Wilson's Syllabus of Questions on Physiology." He was president of 
the Fraternity convention of 1860. 

George Arthur Wilsox, Boston, '91, graduated from the Theological 
School in 1893 and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
He received a Ph. D. degree in 1898. Since 1902 he has been professor of 
Logic and Metaphysics at Syracuse University. He is a member of the 
American Philosophical Society. * B K. 

George AsrtE W11.SON, Mississippi, '72, graduated from the Cumber- 
land Law School in 1873. He has been district attorney and a member of 
the Mississippi Senate and attorney for many corporations. He is prac- 
ticing law at Lexington, Miss. 

*JoHx Hemphill Wilson, Indiana, '60, became professor of Latin at 
Monmouth College in 1861, serving as such until 1864, when he became 
professor of Mathematics. He retained this position until 1876 when he 
became professor of Greek and remained as such until 1901, when he re- 
tired. He received the degree of Pli. D. from Parsons College in 188.5. He 
died Dec. 7, 1912, at Greeley, Colo. 

♦Joseph Gardxer Wilson, Miami, '46, never attended Miami Uni- 
versity, althougli he was a member of the Miami chapter. He was initiated 
while an undergraduate at Marietta for the purpose of establishing a 
chapter at that college. Although his membership in the Fraternity was 
thus of short duration he was much interested in it. After his graduation 
at Marietta in 1846, he removed to Cincinnati where he studied law, gradu- 
ating at the Cincinnati Law School in 18-52. In 1858 he moved to Oregon. 
From 1854 to 1856 he was district attorney for the 3rd Judicial District 
of Oregon; from 1856 to 1858 clerk of the Supreme Court of Oregon; 
from 1858 to 1862 reporter of the Court and from 1862 to 1870 a justice of 
the Court. In 1872 he was elected to Congress and served one term. He 
died at Marietta, Ohio, July 2, 1873. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Marietta in 1865. 



352 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

*JosEPH RuGGLES WiLsoN, Washington & Jefferson, '44, was valedic- 
torian of his class. He attended the ^theological seminary of the Presbyter- 
ian church at Princeton and became a clergyman of that denomination. 
From 1851 to 1855 he was a professor of Natural Sciences at Hampden- 
Sidney College. He was pastor of a church at Staunton, Va., from 1856 to 
1858 and of a church at Augusta, Ga., from 1858 to 1870. He was a pro- 
fessor in the General Theological Seminary of the Southern Presbyterian 
church, Columbia, S. C, from 1870 to 1874, when he again accepted a pas- 
torate, this time at 'Wilmington, N. C. In 1885 he became professor in the 
divinity department af the Southwestern Presbyterian University at 
Clarksville, Tenn., and remained there until 1900, when he retired from ac- 
tive work. He was stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Southern 
Presbyterian church for many years and moderator of the same in 1879 
and 1880. He received the degree of D. D. from Oglethorpe University in 
1857. He died at Princeton, N. J., in 1903 at the home of his son, Woodrow 
Wilson, who became president of the United States. 

Luther Barton Wilson^ Dickinson, '75, studied medicine and grad- 
uated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1877. In 
1878 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and after 
serving as pastor of several churches, was made presiding elder of the 
Washington District from 1894 to 1900, and of the West Baltimore Dis- 
trict from 1903 to 1904. He was fraternal delegate from the Methodist 
church to the Methodist Church of Canada in 1902. He was elected a 
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1904 and is now stationed as 
the resident bishop in New York City. He; received the degree of D. D. 
from Dickinson in 1892, and LL. D. in 1904, L. H. D. from Syracuse in 
1912 and LL. D. from Wesleyan in 1913. He is president of the Ameri- 
can Anti-Saloon League and a trustee of Dickinson College and of the 
Drew Theological Seminary. <l> B K. 

Thomas William Wilson^ Lehigh, '94, since his graduation has been 
engaged as a civil engineer in the construction, maintenance, operation and 
financing of electrical railways, electric light, telephone and other public 
utility properties. He is a director in the Wilmington and Philadelphia 
Traction Co. and in the National Properties Co. He is vice president and 
general manager of the Wilmington and Philadelphia Co. He resides at 
Wilmington, Delaware. T B 11. 

*Samuel Henry Winsor, DePauw, '69, became a civil engineer and 
moving to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1869, became register of public lands in Wy- 
oming and established the boundaries of Wyoming. For a number of 




LUTHER B. WILSON 
Dickinson '75 




JOHN S. WISE 
Virginia '67 



JOHN SERGE J XT WISE 353 

years he was a civil engineer in the employ of the Union Pacific R. R. 
From 1877 to 1879 he was master mechanic of the Vandalia lines. During 
the war he was a private in the 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the 
Union army and was promoted before the close of the war to the rank of 
captain. He died in 1881 at Indianapolis. 

Chari.es Henry Winston, Hampden-Sidnej% '54, graduated with first 
honor. He was assistant professor of Languages at Hampden-Sidney from 
1854 to 1855, and from 1855 to 1857 attended the University of Virginia, 
receiving his Master's degree in 1857. In 1857 and 1858 he was professor 
of Ancient Languages at Transylvania. From 1859 to 1863 he was 
president of the Richmond, Va., Female Institute. In 1863 he was 
placed in charge of the chemical works at Charlotte, N. C, with the rank 
of a major in the Confederate army and served to the end of the war. 
After the war he resumed his position as president of the Richmond 
Female Institute and served as such until 1873, when he became profes- 
sor of Physics and Astronomy at Richmond College. He continued in 
this position for thirty-five years, until 1908, when he was mad'e professor 
Emeritus, a position which he now holds. From 1884 to 1903 he did im- 
portant work as instructor and conductor of State Summer Normal 
Schools in various parts of Virginia. He has delivered many public lec- 
tures on scientific and religious subjects. He received the degree of LL. 
D. from Hampden-Sidney in 1883. He resides at Richmond, Va. 

William Huffsian Winters, Miami, '63, graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1868. He moved to New York City and entered the office of 
Hon. Wm. M. Evarts and in 1871 accepted the position of librarian of the 
library of New York I.,aw Institute. He has built up this library until it 
is the most complete of its kind in the United States and he has become an 
authority on legal literature. He has written a number of technical works 
relating to his specialty, "American and Foreign Bibliography," "Index to 
American and British I.,aw Periodical Literature," "Bibliography of Amer- 
ican State Legislature" and the like. In 1910 he received the degree of LL. 
D. from Miami. * B K. 

*JoHN Sergeant Wise, Virginia, '67, graduated in law. Previous to 
attending the University of Virginia he had been a student at the Virginia 
Military Institute and was wounded at the battle of New Market. From 
1881 to 1883 he was L^nited States attorney for the Eastern District of Vir- 
ginia. From 1883 to 1885 he was a member of Congress. In 1885 he was 
nominated for governor of Virginia, but was defeated. In 1888 he moved to 
New York, where he practiced law. He was the author of "The Old-fash- 



354 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

ioned Man's Letters," "The End of an Era," (by many considered to be the 
best book of recollections of the Civil war), "Diomed," "The Lion's Skin," 
"Recollections of Thirteen Presidents," "Citizenship," and was a prolific con- 
tributor to the periodical press. He died in Maryland in 1913. 

George Monroe Wisner, Michigan, '92, became a specialist in sanitary 
engineering and since 1892 has been connected with the sanitary district 
of Chicago, and since 1907 has been its chief engineer. He resides in 
Chicago. 

*Oliveu Spencer Witherby, Miami, '36, was one of the leading 
citizens of Southern California. He studied law and in 1843 be- 
came prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio, serving for three 
years. When the war with Mexico broke out he enlisted and became a 
lieuteinant of an Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was made 
quartermaster and commissary to the commission which determined the 
new boundary line between Mexico and the United States. In 1849 he 
removed to San Diego, Cal., and was at once elected to the state Legisla- 
ture. After serving one term he was appointed district judge of the 1st 
Judicial District and two years later was appointed collector of customs, 
serving until 1857. After practicing law for some time he founded and 
became the president of the Consolidated Bank. He died at San Diego 
Dec. 19, 1896. 

Eugene Withers, North Carolina, '88, after graduating, attended the 
University of Virginia for one year in the law department. He 
was a member of the Virginia Legislature in 1893 and 1894, and of the 
Virginia Senate from 1895 to 1899. In 1900 he was a Democratic presiden- 
tial elector. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 
1901. He is practicing law at Danville, Va. 

JosiAH Oliver Wolcott, Wesleyan, '01, studied law and was admitted 
tn the bar in Delaware where he has since practiced. He was deputy at- 
torney general for New Castle County from 1909 to 1913 and in the latter 
year was elected attorney-general of Delaware for the term ending in 
1917. He resides at Wilmington, Del. 

*De Volson Wood, Michigan, '59, received the degree of civil engineer 
from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1857. He received a Master's 
degree from Hamilton College in 1859. From 1857 to 1872 he was professor 
of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan and from 1872 to 1897 
was professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering at the Stevens 



HOWARD HOWE WOODMAN 355 

Institute of Tedinology. He was tlie author of numerous books relating to 
mathematics and engineering, among others "Trussed Bridges and Roofs," 
"A Treatise on the Resistance of Materials," "Principles of Elementary 
Mechanics," "Elements of Co-ordinate Geometry," "Thermo Dynamics and 
Heat Motors." He was a frequent contributor to the Journal of the Frank- 
lin Institute and diflFerent scientific and engineering magazines. He was the 
author of many articles in Johnson's and Appleton's encyclopedias. He was 
the inventor of a pump and rock drill. He died at Hoboken in 1897. 

Francis Cauteji Wood, Ohio State, '91, graduated in medicine at 
Columbia in 1894, and is now professor in Columbia University,, holding 
the title of director of Cancer Research of the Crocker Fund. He is also 
a director of the laboratories of St. Luke's Hospital and is the attending 
physician at that hospital. He is the author of "Chemical and Microscop- 
ical Diagnosis." <l> B K, 2) S. 

Horatio Gates Wood, Brown, '8.5, entered the consular service and 
was vice consul general at Cairo from 1887 to 1898 and at Java from 1888 
to 1889. Since 1906 he has been editor of the Herald, Newport, R. I. 

Robert Williams Wood, Johns Hopkins, '92, graduated from Harvard 
in 1891 and in 1900 received the honorary degree of LE. D. from Clark 
University. He attended the University of Berlin from 1892 to 1894. From 
1894 to 1897 he was an assistant professor of Physics at Wisconsin. Since 
1901 he has been professor of Experimental Physics at Johns Hopkins and 
resides in Baltimore. He has received the Rumford gold and silver med- 
als of the American Academy for researches on optical problems. Also the 
John Scott premium and medal from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 
and the silver medal from the Royal Society of Arts. In 1910 he delivered 
the Thomas Young oration before the Optical Society of I.,ondon and the 
Traill Taylor Memorial I>ecture before the Royal Photographic Society. He 
is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and of the Optical 
Society of London. He is the author of "Physical Optics," but is perhaps 
most widely known by his exceedingly interesting and instructive book en- 
titled, "How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers." He is also the author of 
"Animal Analogues." He is the inventor of the method of thawing under- 
ground pipes by passing an electric current through them. <l> B K. 

Howard Howe Woodman, Minnesota, '97, became a railway engineer. 
He was assistant engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, 
contractor for the erection of the steel work of the Union station at Se- 
attle; superintendent of construction of the Moffatt Line over James Peak 



356 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

in Colorado, and is now chief engineer of the Missouri Southern Railway 
Co., and vice president of the Laclede Land and Improvement Co. He 
resides at Reynolds, Mo. 

*WiLi,iAM BuRNHAM WooDs, Wcstem Reserve, '45, did not complete 
his course but went to Yale, where he graduated in 1845. He began the prac- 
tice of law at Newark, Ohio, and was mayor of Newark from 1856 to 1858. 
From 1858 to 1861 he was a member of the Ohio Legislature, serving as 
speaker in 1858 and 1859. When the war broke out he became lieutenant- 
colonel and then colonel of the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was made 
a brigadier-general of the 1st Brigade, First Division, 15th Army Corps 
and commanded a division in Sherman's march to the sea. In 1865 he became 
a major-general. After the war he moved to Alabama and in 1868 and 1869 
was chancellor of the Middle Division of Alabama. In 1869 he was appointed 
United States circuit judge for Alabama and in 1880 a justice of the Su- 
preme Court of the United States. He died at Washington May 14, 1887. He 
was the author of several volumes of law reports. He received the degree 
of LL. D. from Yale in 1883. 

*Lewis Cass Woolery, Bethany, '84, was professor of Greek at Beth- 
any from 1887 to 1893 and at the University of West Virginia from 1893 
to 1900. He died at Morgantown, W. Va., in 1900. 

James Leigh Woolson, Iowa Wesleyan, '87, graduated from the Bos- 
ton University Law School in 1890. He was for a time editor of the 
Chicago Examiner. He is now associate editor of the Popular Mechanics 
magazine, contributing editor of Cartoons and publisher and editor of 
Garage Efficiency. He resides at Oak Park, 111. 

*Christopher Columbus Wright, Iowa Wesleyan, '72, moved to Cal- 
ifornia and practiced law at Modesto and Los Angeles. He was district 
attorney at Modesto from 1876 to 1880 and was a member of the Cali- 
fornia Legislature from 1887 to 1889. He was the author of the District 
Irrigation Law of California. He died in 1905. 

*D'exter Russei.t. Wright, Wesleyan, '45, graduated from the Yale 
Law School in 1848. He was a member of the Connecticut Legislature from 
1863 to 1865, 1878 to 1879, and was speaker in 1879. He enlisted in the 
Union army in 1861 as a private and rose to be colonel of the 14th Con- 
necticut Volunteer Infantry. He was corporation counsel of New Haven 
from 1873 to 1874. He received the degree of LL. D. from Wesleyan in 
1879. He died in New Haven in 1886. * B K. 



MALCOLM GLENN WYER 357 

Edwahd Bixgiiam ^\'R1GIIT, Western Reserve, '59, graduated from the 
Union Theological Semihary, New York, in 1867, and entered the ministry 
Oi the Presbyterian church. From 1872 to 1907 he was pastor of the First 
Presbyterian church at Austin, Texas, and is now retired as pastor 
emeritus. During the war he served in the Union army as captain in the 
1st Michigan Light Artillery. He resides at Austin, Texas. * B K. 

*GEonGE BoHAN Wright, Ohio, '41, studied at Western Reserve during 
1839-40. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced at 
Newark, Ohio, until 1856. He was a specialist in railroad law. From 1854 
to 1860 he was receiver and then president of the Sandusky, Mansfield & 
Newark R. R.; from 1860 to 1863 he was vice president of the Central 
Ohio R. R. In 1861 he became quarter master general of Ohio, and in 1863 
colonel of the 106th Ohio Volunteers in command of the Columbus, Ohio, 
arsenal. From 1867 to 1870 he was the first commissioner of railroads and 
telegraphs of Ohio. From 1870 to 1874 he was vice president of the At- 
lantic & Great Western R. R. and from 1873 to 1887 receiver of the In- 
dianapolis, Bloomington & Western R. R. He was the author of "Laws of 
Ohio relating to Railroads and Telegraphs." He died at Columbus, Ohio, 
in 1903. 

Henry Lincoln Wriston, Denver, '89, graduated from the Boston 
University School of Theology in 1893. He has held important pastorates 
in the New England Conference. He is secretary and manager of the 
Methodist Minister Relief and Trust Association. He has published "In- 
ductive Studies in the Book of the Acts" and "First Samuel." He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from the University of Denver in 1908. He 
resides in Boston. 

Malcolm Glenn Wyer, Minnesota, '99, graduated at the New York 
State Library School in 1903. He was librarian of Colorado College in 
1903-04; of the University of Iowa from 1904 to 1913, and the University 
of Nebraska since 1913. He was director of the Iowa Summer library 
School in 1913. In 1910 and 1911 he was president of the Iowa Library 
Association. He has published "A Digest of the Messages of Governors 
of New York, 1840-1900," and "Book Plates in Iowa." He resides in Lin- 
coln, Neb. 




GEORGE B. "WRIGHT 
Ohio '41 




JOHN W. YERKES 
Central 73 



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*James Ault Yantis, Missouri, '89, was made professor of law at the 
University of Missouri immediately after his graduation, a position which 
he retained until his death, which occurred at Columbia, Mo., in 1904. 

John Watson Yerkes, Centre, "73, Michigan, '77, graduated from the 
law department of the University of Michigan in 1877. From 1891 to 1896 
he was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. Since 1894 
he has been a professor in the Law Department of Central University. He 
was a member of the National Republican Committee from 1896 to 1908. 
In 1897 he was collector of the U. S. internal revenue. From 1900 to 1911 he 
was United States commissioner of internal revenue. In 1900 he was the Re- 
publican nominee for governor of Kentucky, but was defeated. From 1892 
to 1901 he was attorney for the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pacific Rail- 
way. He received the degree of L. D. D. from Central University in 1902. 
He is a lawyer and resides in Washington, D. C. 

Albert Duncan Yocum, Dickinson, '89, received the degree of Ph. 
D. from Pennsylvania in 1900. He was for several years superintendent 
of Schools at Chester, Pa. He is now professor of Pedagogy and Direc- 
tor of the sunmier school of the University of Pennsylvania. He resides 
at Ridley Park, Pa. 

Francis Louowick York, Michigan, '82, became a musician. From 
1892 to 1896 he was a professor of music at the University of Michigan; 
from 1896 to 1909 in charge of the piano department at the Michigan 
State Normal Conservatory. Since 1902 he has been president of the 
Detroit Conservatory of Music. He is well known as an organist and 
composer of piano, organ and choral music and is editor of Scheimer's 
Library. He is the author of "Harmony Simplified,'' "Counterpoint Sim- 
plified," and many articles upon music in sundry periodicals. He resides 
in Detroit, Mich. 

*Charles Augustus Young, Western Reserve, '.53, graduated at Dart- 
mouth with first honors in 1853. In 1857 he became professor of Mathe- 
matics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at Western Reserve, remaining 
in that position until 1866 when he became professor of Astronomy at Dart- 
mouth. In 1877 he became professor of Astronomy at Princeton, retiring in 

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360 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

1907. In 1862 he became captain of Company B, 85th Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry in the Union army (a company which embraced the entire Western 
Reserve chapter at the time). He was author of many books: "The Sun," 
"General Astronomy," "Elements of Astronomy," "Lessons in Astronomy," 
"Manual of Astronomy," "Uranography," and was a frequent contributor to 
scientific and other periodicals. He was the discoverer of the solar "re- 
versing layer" and was the highest authority on solar physics. He received 
a number of degrees. Ph. D. from Pennsylvania and Hamilton, and LL. D. 
from Wesleyan, Columbia and Western Reserve. He died at Hanover, 
N. H., Jan. 4, 1908. He was an honorary member of Alpha Delta Phi. 
*BK. 

Charles Duxcanson Young, Cornell, '02 graduated from the me- 
chanical engineering department and started as an apprentice with the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, working for a time in the shops and firing a 
locomotive. Then he was with the motive power department of the 
P. C. C. & St. R. R. at Columbus. A few years later he was assistant 
general superintendent of motor power of the Pennsylvania lines west of 
Pittsburgh. Now he is the Engineer of Tests for the Pennsylvania sys- 
tem with the rank of superintendent. He is chairman of the committee on 
"Efficiency Tests of Locomotives." He resides at Altoona, Pa. 

Frederick George Young, Johns Hopkins, '86, after graduation re- 
mained two years at the University doing post-graduate work. From 1887 
to 1890 he was vice president of the State Normal School at Madison, 
South Dakota. In 1889, while in that office, he was a member of the Con- 
stitutional Convention of South Dakota. From 1890 to 1894 he was prin- 
cipal of the Portland, Oregon, high school. From 1894 to 1895 he was 
president of Albany College, Oregon, and since 1895 has been professor 
of Economics and Sociology at the University of Oregon. He was the 
editor of "Sources of the History of Oregon," and of the "Quarterly 
Journal of the Oregon Historical Society" and is the author of "The 
Finances of Oregon." He resides at Eugene, Oregon. 

James Richard Young, Hampden-Sidney, '74, was a probate judge 
from 1881 to 1891 and since 1902 has been state commissioner of insurance 
of North Carolina, and is president of the National Association of State 
Insurance Commissioners. He resides at Raleigh, N. C. 

*JoHN Clarke Young was an honorary member of the Centre 
Chapter. He graduated at Dickinson in 1823, and from the Theological 
Seminary at Princeton in 1828. He became president of Centre College in 




CHARLES A YOUNG 
Western Reserve '53 




CHARLES D. YOUNG 
Cornell '02 



WILLIAM CLARKE YOUNG 361 

1830, a position which he retained until 1857. From 1834 to 1852 in addi- 
tion to his position in the college he was pastor of the First Church in Dan- 
ville, and from 1852 to 1857 pastor of the Second Church. He was mod- 
erator of the Presbyterian Church Assembh' in 1833. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Princeton in 1839. He died at Danville June 23, 
1867. 

John S. Young, Centenary, '55, studied law and practiced at Shreve- 
port. La. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army and served until 1865, 
becoming colonel of the 5th Louisiana Cavalry. In 1878-79 he was a mem- 
ber of Congress. He resides at Shreveport, La. 

Owen D. Young, St. Lawrence, '94, studied law and was admitted to 
the bar and practiced for some time in Boston. He is now vice president 
and general counsel of the General Electric Company. His office is in 
New York City. 

Robert Harvev Young, Washington & Jefferson, '69, became a mer- 
chant in Cincinnati, where he now resides. He has rendered frequent and 
valuable service to the Fraternity. He was general treasurer from 1874 to 
1876, 1881 to 1884 and 1891 to 1892. He was a member of the board of 
directors of the Fraternity from 1879 to 1884, and 1891 to 1892, and of the 
board of trustees from 1892 to 1895. 

Samuel Hall Young, Wooster, '75, attended the Theological Seminary 
at Princeton and at Allegheny, Pa., graduating from the latter in 1878, and 
entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church and at once went to Alas- 
ka as a missionary and explorer. In 1879 he organized the first protes- 
tant church in Alaska. From 1878 to 1880 he was pastor of a Presbyterian 
church at Long Beach, Cal. In 1880 he organized the First Presbyterian 
Church at Dawson and from that time until 1900 he was engaged in organ- 
izing missions in several parts of Alaska. Since 1901 he has been superin- 
tendent of all of the Presbyterian missions in Alaska. He has contributed 
much to the denominational periodicals on missionary work in Alaska. He 
resides at Teller, Alaska. 

* William Clarke Young, Centre, '59, graduated from the Theological 
Seminary of the Presbyterian church at Danville, Ky., in 1865 and entered 
the ministry of that church. He was pastor of Presbyterian churches at 
Covington, Ky., from 1865 to 1870; at Madison, Ind., from 1870 to 1871; at 
Chicago from 1871 to 1879 and of the Fullertown Avenue Church in Louis- 



362 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

ville from 1879 to 1888, when be came president of Centre College, a posi- 
tion which he kept until the time of his death in 1896. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Centre College in 1882 and of LL. D. from Princeton 
College and the University of Alabama in 1892. He was moderator of the 
Presbyterian General Assembly in 1892. He died at Danville, Ky., in 1896. 



*JoHN Cai.ivigehos Zachos^ Cincinnati, '41, was born in Constantinople 
of Greek parents. He came to the United States in 1832 and was edu- 
cated at an academy at Amherst, Mass., and at Kenyon College, graduat- 
ing in 1840 with the second honor. He studied medicine and received the 
degree of M. D. from the Miami Medical College in 1843. He then studied 
law and was admitted to the bar. He was president of the Ohio Female College 
from 1853 to 1855 and a professor of English at Antioch College from 1855 
to 1858. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Union army as a 
surgeon and was stationed at Paris Island, South Carolina, of which island 
he was practically the autocrat and governor during the war. At the 
close of the war he entered the Unitarian ministry and for a year was 
pastor of a church at Newton, Mass. From 1866 to 1868 he was professor 
of Literature and Biblical Exegesis at the Meadville, Pa., Theological 
Seminary. He then was professor of English at Cornell University for two 
years. When Peter Cooper opened the Cooper Institute in New York City 
he put Dr. Zachos in charge of it and he remained there as its president or 
"curator" and professor of Oratory and English until his death. He was a 
prolific writer and was the author of Analytical Elocution, a new system of 
Phonetic Reading, a Phonic Primer and Reader and an American Speaker. 
Also an unusual spelling book. He invented in 1876 a stenographic instru- 
ment called the stenotype, which successfully reported speech in readily 
readable characters derived from Roman letters. He died March 20, 1898. 

Chari.es ZrEBLiN, Northwestern, "87, attended the University of Penn- 
sylvania from 1883 to 1885. He graduated at the Yale Divinity School in 
1889. From 1889 to 1891 he studied at the University of Leipzig. In 1892 
he was secretary of the class study division of the University Extension De- 
partment of the University of Chicago. From 1892 to 1895 he was instructor 
in Sociology at that University. In 1895 he was assistant professor and from 
1896 to 1902 was an associate professor and since then professor of Sociol- 
ogy. In 1898 he was a lecturer at the Summer School at Edinburgh, Scot- 
land. From 1901 to 1902 he was president of the American League of Civic 
Improvement. In 1901 to 1905 he was a member of the Chicago Special Park 
Commission. He has been a frequent contributor to the periodical press and 
is the author of "American Municipal Progress," and "A Decade of Civic 
Development." He resides at Winchester, Mass. 

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CONCLUSION 

It was our original intention to conclude tiiis cunipilation with an 
analytical list of the names included in the foregoing pages and to classify 
the judges, doctors, lawyers, authors, bankers, naval and military men and 
others in the various fields of endeavor in which they had been successful, 
but the task proved to be too great within the time at our disposal. 

And so we content ourselves at this place with a mere list of some of 
the Betas in a few very prominent classes, leaving it to some future fra- 
ternity enthusiast to perform the task we would gladly have undertaken if 
possible. 

The Supreme Court of the United States has been termed the most 
august judicial tribunal in the world. The Fraternity has been fortunate 
enough to number among its members no less than seven members of this 
court, namely, John N. Harlan, Centre '50, William B. Woods, Western 
Reserve '42, Stanley Matthews, Cincinnati "42, David J. Brewer, Wesleyan 
'55, Horace H. Lurton, Cumberland '67, Willis Van Devanter, DePauw '81, 
and Joseph R. Lamar, Bethany '77, the last three having been nominated 
practically at the same time, and as Judge Harlan was living at the time 
of their admission to the court, it happened that the Fraternity, for a brief 
time, had four out of the nine members of this court. 

Judges I.urton, Brewer and Van Devanter were all members of the 
federal bench before their elevation to the highest court in the United 
States, and in addition to these, the following Betas have been or now are, 
judges of the Federal Courts in the districts named, viz.: Andrew M. J. 
Cochran, Centre '73, Kentucky; Peter S. Grosscup, Wittenberg '82, Illinois; 
John W. Showalter, Ohio '63, Illinois; Alonzo J. Edgerton, Wesleyan, '50, 
South Dakota; Robert E. Lewis, W^estminster '80, Colorado; Henry S. 
Priest, Westminster '72, Missouri; James H. Beatty, Ohio Wesleyan '58, 
Idaho; Oliver P. Shiras, Ohio '53, Iowa: Walker T. Gunter, Missouri '90, 
Utah; William M. Springer, DePauw '58, and Hosea Townsend, Western 
Reserve '64, both in the Indian Territory. During the war Thomas J. De- 
vine, Transylvania '45, was Confederate States judge for Texas. 

The following LTnited States senators have been members of the Fra- 
ternity, namely: William E. Borah, Kansas, '89, Idaho; Newton Booth, De- 
Pauw '46, California; Benjamin Gratz Brown, Transylvania '46, Missouri; 
Norris Brown, Iowa '83, Nebraska; Joseph R. Burton, Hanover '73, Kan- 

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366 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

sas; Alonzo J. Edgerton, Wesleyan '50, Minnesota; John B. Gordon, 
Georgia '53, Georgia; James Harlan, DePauw '45, Iowa; Martin N. John- 
son, Iowa '73, North Dakota; Milton S. Latham, Jefferson '43, California; 
James W. McDill, Miami '53, Iowa; Joseph E. McDonald, Indiana '49, 
Indiana; Stanley Matthews, Cincinnati, '42, Ohio; Oliver P. Morton, Miami 
'45, Indiana; Boise Penrose, Harvard '81, Pennsylvania; Matthew S. Quay, 
Jefferson '50, Pennsylvania; Joseph L. Rawlins, Indiana '74, Utah, and 
Daniel W. Voorhees, DePauw '49, Indiana. 

The congressmen in the Fraternity are as follows: John M. Allen, 
Cumberland '69; William H. Armstrong, Princeton '47; George T. Barnes, 
Emory '53; Jack Beall, Texas '90; George L. Becker, Michigan '46; Wil- 
liam T. Bell, Virginia 'QQ; Thomas W. Bennett, DePauw '55; Albert S. 
Berry, Miami '56; Richard W. Blue, Jefferson '64; Henry S. Boutell, 
Northwestern '74; John Y. Brown, Centre '55; Webster E. Brown, Wis- 
consin '74; William D. Bynum, Indiana '69; Ezekiel B. Candler, Mississippi 
'81; Frank G. Clark, Dartmouth '73; Rush Clark, Jefferson '53; Isaac 
Clements, DePauw '59; Will Cumback, DePauw '53; John Coburn, Wa- 
bash '46 ; Schuyler Colfax, DePauw '44 ; William S. Cowherd, Missouri '81 ; 
William B. Craven, Missouri '93; Thomas T. Crittenden, Centre '55; George 
W. Cromer, Indiana '82; Mark L. DeMotte, DePauw '53; Osro J. Dodds, 
Miami '61; Paul C. Edmunds, Virginia '56; E. John EUis, Centenary '59; 
William Elliott, Virginia '58; Scott Field, Virginia '68; William E. Fuller, 
Iowa '70; John M. Glover, Washington '71; Miles T. Granger, Wesleyan 
'42; Levi T. Griffin, Michigan '57; Benton J. Hall, Miami '55; John Hanna, 
DePauw '58; Henry R. Harris, Emory '47; Patrick Henry, Mississippi '82; 
Robert R. Hitt, DePauw '55; Henry W. Hoffman, Jefferson '46; Edward 
Everett Holland, Richmond '79; Jonas G. Howard, DePauw '47; James F. 
Izlar, Emory '55; Martin N. Johnson, Iowa '73; William M. Kinsey, Mon- 
mouth '69; Charles B. Landis, Wabash '63; Milton S. Latham, Jefferson '43; 
John J. Lentz, Wooster '81; Frank O. Lowden, Iowa '85; Humphrey 
Marshall, Transylvania '45; Courtland C. Matson, DePauw '62; Stan- 
ley Matthews, Cincinnati '42; John W. McCormick, Ohio '55; James 
W. McDill, Miami '53; Joseph E. McDonald, Indiana '49; William P. 
McLean, North Carolina '49; Ulysses Mercur, Jefferson '42; Robert W. 
Miers, Indiana '70; John S. Newberry, Michigan '47; Halbert E. Paine, 
Western Reserve '45; John M. Pattison, Ohio Wesleyan '69; Robert B. F. 
Pierce, Wabash '6Q; Henry M. Pollard, Dartmouth '57; Albert G. Porter, 
DePauw '43; Jacob J. Pugsley, Miami '59; Joseph L. Rawlins, Indiana '74; 
Henry A. Reeves, Michigan '52; Ira E. Rider, St. Lawrence '88; Thomas L. 
Rubey, Missouri '85; Charles F. Scott, Kansas '81; Harvey D. Scott, De- 



CONCLUSION ■ 367 

Pauw, '50; Townsend Scudder, Columbia '88; John M. C. Smith, Michigan 
'81; William B. Spencer, Centenary '55; William M. Springer, Illinois '58; 
Howard Sutherland, Westminster '89; Hosea Townsend, Western Reserve 
'64; Henry St. George Tucker, Washington & Lee '75; Daniel W. Voorhees, 
DePauw '49; Walter A. Watson, Hampden-Sidney '87; William J. Whitt- 
horne, Cumberland 'G7; Joseph G. Wilson, Miami '46; John S. Wise, 
Virginia '67, and John S. Young, Centenary '55. 

Among the federal cabinet officers and bureau chiefs, there have been 
the following, namely, Secretaries of the Interior, James Harlan, DePauw 
'45; John W. Noble, Miami '51; David R. Francis, Washington '70; Assist- 
ant Secretarij of the Interior, Webster W. Davis, Kansas '88; Melville 
W. Miller, DePauw '78, and Bo Sweeney, Cumberland '88; Treasurer 
of the United States, Charles H. Treat, Dartmouth '65; Commissioners of 
Patents, Halbert E. Paine, Western Reserve '45; Benton J. Hall, Miami 
'55; Commissioner of Internal Revenue, John W. Yerkes, Centre '73; 
Comptroller of the Treasury, Albert G. Porter, DePauw '44, and Superin- 
tendent of the Coast Survey, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Western Reserve '61. 
There have been many members who have occupied the positions of assist- 
ants to cabinet officers and bureau chiefs and who as chief clerks, or the 
like, have actually administered the affairs of such departments and bur- 
eaus, but as they have not held the titles, they are omitted here. 

There have been few Betas in the diplomatic service. We might men- 
tion the following ministers, namely: Albert G. Porter, DePauw '44, to 
Italy; Edwin H. Terrel, DePauw '71, to Belgium; Rufus Magee, Indiana 
'64, to Norway and Sweden; Will Cumback, DePauw '53, to Portugal; Wil- 
1am T. Coggeshall, Ohio '59, to Ecuador; Henry S. Boutell, Northwestern 
'74, to Switzerland; Humphrey Marshall, Transylvania '74, to China, and 
Enoch H. Crowder, Missouri '86, to Chile and Cuba. Aimaro Sato, DePauw 
'87, has long been in the Japanese diplomatic service and has been Japanese 
minister to Mexico and to the Netherlands. 

The Fraternity has numbered among its sons an unusual number of 
governors of states, the list being as follows: Governors of Missouri, Ben- 
jamin Gratz Brown, Transylvania '45; Charles H. Hardin, Miami '40; 
Thomas T. Crittenden, Centre '55, and David R. Francis, Washington, '70; 
of California, Milton S. Latham, Jefferson '43, and Newton Booth, DePauw 
'46, of Indiana; Oliver P. Morton, Miami '45, and Albert G. Porter, DePauw 
'44; of Colorado, Samuel H. Elbert, Ohio Wesleyan '54, and Henry A. Buch- 
tel, DePauw '72; of 0/iio, George Hoadley, Western Reserve '44, and John M. 
Pattison, Ohio Wesleyan '69; of New Jersey, Edward C. Stokes, Brown '83, 
and Leon R. Taylor, Denison '07; of Wisconsin, Louis P. Harvey, Cincin- 



368 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

nati '41; of Idaho, Thomas W. Bennett, DePauw '55; of Georgia, John B. 
Gordon Georgia '53; of West Virginia, Henry M. Matthews, Virginia '56; 
of Nebraska, Albinus Nance, Knox '68; of Pennsylvania, James A, Beaver, 
Jefferson '56; of Kentucky, John Y. Brown, Centre '55; of New York, 
Benjamin B. Odell, Bethany '77; of Massachusetts, John L. Bates, Bos- 
ton '82; of Virginia, Andrew J. Montague, Richmond '82, and of Maine, 
William T. Haines, Maine '76. There have been also a few lieutenant gov- 
ernors, viz.: of Indiana, Will Cumback, DePauw '50; of Texas, Barnett 
Gibbs, Virginia '71; of Nebraska, Edmund G. McGilton, Wisconsin '83; of 
Kentucky, John Marshall, Centre '77, and of Missouri, Thomas L. Rubey, 
Missouri '85. 

State officials have been naturally much more numerous. Among Sec- 
retaries of State of the several states have been Levi T. Dashiel, Texas, '90, 
Texas; Charles W. Burdick, Ohio Wesleyan '81, Wyoming ; Matthew S. 
Quay, Jefferson '50, Pennsylvania; Samuel H. Elbert, Ohio '54, Colorado; 
James Smith, Jefferson '57, Kansas; Samuel Galloway, DePauw '60, Ohio; 
James W. Blackburn, Centre '54, Kentucky ; Louis P. Harvey, Cincinnati 
'40, Wisconsin; David Q. Eggleston, Hampden-Sidney '77, Virginia, and 
Cyrus Thompson, Randolph-Macon '77, North Carolina. Among Attorney 
Generals there have been of Maine, William T. Haines, Maine '86 and Wil- 
liam R. Pattingall, Maine '84; of Kentucky, William J. Hendrick, Centre 
'78 and James M. Harlan, Centre '50; of South Carolina, Daniel A. Town- 
send, Davidson '58; of New York, Thomas Carmody, Cornell '82; of Missis- 
sippi, James B. Sterling, Missouri '90; of Virginia; John Garland Pollard, 
Richmond '91; of Washington, John D. Atkinson, Indiana '87; of Iowa, 
Milton Remley, Iowa '67; of Missouri, Robert F. Walker, Missouri '73; of 
Florida, George P. Raney, Virginia '67; of Ohio, William H. West, Jeffer- 
son '46; of Nebraska, Norris Brown, Iowa '83; of West Virginia, Henry 
M. Matthews, Virginia '54; of Indiana, Joseph E. McDonald, Indiana '49; 
of Delaware, Josiah O. Wolcott, Wesleyan '01; State Treasurers: of Penn- 
sylvania, Matthew S. Quay, Jefferson '50; of Mississippi, Thaddeus B. 
Lampton, Mississippi '89. State Auditors, of Washington, John D. Atkin- 
son, Indiana '78; of Nevada, Harry C. Marshall, Ohio Wesleyan '55, and of 
Wyoming, Charles W. Burdick, Ohio Wesleyan '81. State Comptroller of 
Tennessee, James A. Harris, Vanderbilt '86. 

State officials at the head of bureaus or departments of the state gov- . 
ernments have been as follows: Superintendents of Public Instruction, 
Benjamin F. Crary, DePauw '55, Minnesota; Louis W. Baxter, Kansas '93, 
Oklahoma; James Harlan, DePauw '45, Iowa; William C. Larrabee, De- 
Pauw '46, Indiana; Joseph D. Eggleston, Hampden-Sidney '86, Virginia. 



CONCLUSION 369 

Commissioners of Education, James Tlionipson, Indiana '51, Tennessee; 
Edward O. Sisson, Chicago '93, Idaho; Samuel McC. Lindsay, Pennsylvania 
'89, Porto Rico. School Commissioner, Gustavus J. Orr, Emory '44, Georgia. 
Railroad Commissioners, George B. Wright, Ohio '41, Ohio; George L. 
Becker, Michigan '46, Minnesota; James W. McDill, Miami '53, Iowa; Par- 
kei Spofford, Dartmouth '65, Maine. State Geologists, Henry B. Kummel, 
Beloit '89, New Jersey; John S. Newberry, Western Reserve '46, Ohio; 
Leslie A. Lee, St. Lawrence '72, Maine, and George H. Perkins, Knox '67, 
Vermont. State Chemists, Lucius Polk Brown, Virginia '89, Tennessee; 
Peter T. Austen, Rutgers '72, New Jersey; Robert B. Riggs, Beloit '76, Con- 
necticut; William R. Dodson, Missouri '90, Louisiana. State Entomologists, 
George H. Perkins, Knox '67, Ver7ndnt; James M. Safford, Ohio '44, Ten- 
nessee; Ernest Walker, DePauw '90, Arkansas. State Horticulturist, Ernest 
Walker, DePauw, '90, Alabama. State Zoologist, Henry T. Fernald, Maine 
'85, Pennsylvania. 

Chief Justices of State Supreme Courts have been: Henry Clay Good- 
ing, DePauw '59, Arizona; Willis Van Devanter, DePauw '81, Wyoming; 
James H. Beatty, Ohio Wesleyan '58, Idaho; Alonzo Jay Edgerton, Wes- 
leyan '50, Minnesota; Presley K. Ewing, Mississippi '81, Te.vas; Ulysses L. 
Mercur, Jefferson '42, Pennsylvania; Sanuiel H. Elbert, Ohio Wesleyan '54, 
Colorado; Sterling R. Cockrill, Washington & Lee '69, Arkansas; George P. 
Raney, Virginia '67, Florida; Shepard Barclay, Virginia '69, Missouri; 
James B. Gantt, Virginia '67, Missouri; Horace H. Lurton, Cumberland 
'67, Tennessee; Robert B. Mayes, Mississippi '88, Mississippi. 

The following have been presiding officers under different designations 
of the upper houses of the legislatures of the following states: Tennessee, 
Zwingle W. Ewing, Hampden-Sidney '69; Ernest Rice, Cumberland '93; 
New Jersey, James W. Scovel, Jefferson '59; Edward C. Stokes, Brown 
'83; Leon R. Taylor, Denison '07; Indiana, John Overmeyer, DePauw '67; 
Will Cumback, DePauw '50; Pennsylvania, John P. Penny, Jefferson '43, 
Boies Penrose, Harvard '81; North Carolina, James T. Morehead, North 
Carolina '58; South Carolina, James F. Izlar, Emory '55; Missouri, Thomas 
L. Rubey, Missouri '55. 

And the following have been presiding officers of the lower houses of 
the legislatures of the following states: Tennessee, Julius A. Trousdale, 
Cumberland '70, Joseph W. Byrns, Vanderbilt '71, and Henry P. Fowlkes, 
Cumberland '68; Indiana, Henry S. Cautliorne, DePauw '48; Samuel H. 
Buskirk, Indiana '70, and William D. Bynum, Indiana '59; Iowa, Rush 
Clark, Jefferson '53; Paul E. Stillman, Michigan '91; Ohio, John C. En- 
trekin, Ohio Wesleyan '67; William B. Woods, Western Reserve '45; 



370 BETAS OF ACHIEVEMENT 

Georgia, Georgia T. Barnes, Georgia '53; Joseph B. Cummings, Georgia 
'54; Alabama, William H. Chambers, Emory '45; Thomas H. Clark, How- 
ard '77; Nebraska, Albinus Nance, Knox '68; Wisconsin, Hiram O. Fair- 
child, Wabash '66; Vermont, Franklin Fairbanks, Williams '53; South Car- 
olina, William F. Stevenson, Davidson '85; Massachusetts, John L. Bates, 
Boston, '82; Illinois, Henry S. Boutell, Northwestern '74, and Connecticut, 
Dexter R. Wright, Wesleyan '45. Robert F. Sutherland, Toronto '80, has 
been the presiding officer of the Ontario Parliament. 

There have been a large number of college presidents among the mem- 
bers of the Fraternity, and we mention the following, although the list is 
by no means inclusive. The following state universities or state supported 
colleges have had Beta presidents: Arizona, Frank Y. Adams, St. Law- 
rence '88; California, William T. Reid, Illinois '67; Kentucky, James K. 
Patterson, Hanover '55; Idaho, Joseph P. Blanton, Hampden-Sidney '69; 
Missouri, Samuel S. Laws, Miami '58; Michael M. Fisher, Hanover '55; 
John C. Jones, Westminster '79; Wisconsin, John Bascom, Williams '49; 
Washington, Thomas M. Gatch, Ohio Wesleyan '55; Ohio State, William H. 
Scott, Ohio '62; Pennsylvania State, James A. Beaver, Jefferson '56; Ohio, 
Isaac Crook, Ohio Wesleyan '59; Wyoming, Charles O. Merica, DePauw '91; 
Frederick M. Tisdell, Northwestern '91; Iowa, Emlin McClain, Iowa '71; 
Oklahoma, David R. Boyd, Wooster '78; Indiana, Cyrus Nutt, DePauw '59; 
William M. Daily, DePauw '46; West Virginia, Jerome H. Raymond, North- 
western '92 ; Virginia, Charles S. Venable, Virginia '55 ; New Mexico, David 
R. Boyd, Wooster '78; Oregon Agricultural College, Thomas M. Gatch, Ohio 
Wesleyan '55; North Carolina Agricultural College, Alexander Q. Holladay, 
Virginia '59; Oklahoma State College, Angelo C. Scott, Kansas '77; Colo- 
rado State College, Elijah E. Edwards, DePauw '53; Florida State College, 
Alexander Q. Holladay, Virginia '59; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Jos- 
eph D. Eggleston, Hampden-Sidney '86; Miami University (one of the state 
colleges of Ohio), Andrew D. Hepburn, Jefferson '51; David S. Tappan, 
Miami '64. 

Among other colleges, the following have had Beta presidents: Boston 
University, William F. Warren, Wesleyan '53; Northwestern University, 
Charles H. Fowler, Syracuse '59; Denver University, Henry A. Buchtel, 
DePauw '72, and David H. Moore, Ohio '60; Syracuse University, Charles 
N. Simms, DePauw, '70; Ohio Wesleyan University, Lorenzo D. McCabe, 
Ohio '46; Iowa Wesleyan University, James Harlan, DePauw '45, and 
Charles L. Safford, Iowa Wesleyan '71; DePauw University, William H. 
Hickman, DePauw, 73, and Hillary A. Gobin, DePauw '70; Dakota Wes- 
leyan, William G. Seaman, DePauw '71; Emory Sf Henry College, Elijah E. 



COXCLrsiOX 371 

Hoss, Oliio Wesleyan'fii); University of the Pacific, Isaac Crook, Ohio '59; 
Thomas H. Suiex, DePauw '42; Augustine C. Hirst, Hanover '61; Nebraska 
Westei/an, Isaac Crook, Ohio '59; Emory College, Luther M. Smith, Emory '48, 
and Osborne L. Smith '43; Centenary College, diaries W. Carter, Centenary 
'55; Simpson College, Charles E. Shelton, Iowa Wesleyan '79; Baker Uni- 
versity, Sanuiel S. Weatherby, Ohio Wesleyan 'Qd; Howard University, 
Will)ur P. Thirkield, Ohio Wesleyan '79; Allegheny College, George Loomis, 
Wesleyan '42; Jlbion College, Thomas H. Sinex, DePauw '42; Davidson 
College, Andrew D. Hepburn, Jefferson '51; William J. Martin, Davidson 
'88; Hanover College, George D. Archil)ald, Jefferson '57; Monmouth Col- 
lege, James A. P. McGaw, Miami '5(); David A. W^allace, Miami '46; West- 
minster College, Michael M. Fisher, Hanover "55; Charles B. Roving, West- 
minster '51; Illinois College, Edward A. Tanner, Illinois '57; Clifford W. 
Barnes, California '89; Hampden-Sidney College, Richard Mcllwaine, 
Hampden-Sidney '53; Centre College, Ormond Beatty, Centre; John C. 
Young, Centre; William C. Young, Centre '59; Transylvania University, 
Burris A. Jenkins, Bethany '91; Butler College, Zackary T. Sweeney, De- 
Pauw "71, and Winfred E. Garrison, Bethany '92; Buchtel College, Augus- 
tus B. Church, St. Lawrence '86; Austin College, Henry B. Boude, Centre 
'57, and Samuel M. Luckett, Centre '59; Hamline University, Benjamin F. 
Crary, DePauw '55; Williametfe University. Thomas M. Gatch, Ohio Wes- 
leyan '55; Wells College, Jasper W\ Freely, Dartmouth '78; St. Lawrence 
University. John C. Lee, St. Lawrence '76; Cumberland University. Winsted 
B. Boone, Trinity '83; Wittenberg College, John M. Rutrauff, Wittenberg 
'71, and Charles G. Heckert, Wittenberg, '86. 

There are two colleges outside the United States which have Beta 
presidents, namely, Robert College in Constantinajile, Caleb F. G ites, Be- 
loit '77, and Oahu College, Hawaii, Arthur F. Griffiths, St. Lawrence '97.' 
There are also several institutes of technology wliicb have had Beta presi- 
dents, namely, Rose Polytechnic and Worcester Polytechnic. Thomas C. 
Mendenhall, Western Reserve '69; the Armour Institute of Technology, 
Frank W^. Gunsaulus, Ohio Wesleyan "75; The Clarkson School of Technol- 
ogy, John P. Brooks, Dartmouth '85; The Bradley Polytechnic Institute, 
Edward O. Sisson, Chicago '93, and the Rice Institute, Edgar O. Lovett, 
Bethany '90. 

And so the list might be extended to include deans and heads of de- 
partments in universities, but we conclude with a mention of a few church 
dignitaries. 

The following have l)een bishops of the Protestant Ejiiscopal church: 
Henry M. Jackson, Virginia Military Institute '71, Bishop of .\labama; 



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George H. Kihsolving, Virginia 'TO, Bishop of Texas; Davis Sessums, Vir- 
ginia '78, Bishop of Louisiana; Charles D. M'^illiaras, Ken_von '80, Bishop of 
Michigan; and Rogers Israel, Dickinson '85, Bishop of Erie. 

And the following have been bishops of the Methodist Episcopal 
church: Edward G. Andrews, Wesleyan '47; Henry W. Warren, Wesleyan 
'53; William X. Ninde, Wesleyan '55; Charles H. Fowler, Syracuse '59; 
Isaac W. Joyce, DePauw '76; Wilbur P. Thirkield, Ohio Wesleyan '79; 
David H. Moore, Ohio '60; Earl Cranston, Ohio '61; Luther B. Wilson, 
Dickinson '75, and William O. Shepard, DePauw '85; and Elijah E. Hoss, 
Ohio Wesleyan '69, is a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 



